How Big Oil Companies Can Slow the Green Transition by Suing Governments that Ban Fossil Fuels

How big oil companies can slow the green transition by suing governments that ban fossil fuels

Pakhnyushchy/ShutterstockThe UN’s climate summit in Brazil did not produce a fossil fuel roadmap last November, as had been expected. Now the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has exposed the fragility of global dependence on fossil fuels. The push and pull of nations with respect to coal, oil and gas was once again in the limelight during the first Conference for the Just Transition Away from Fossil Fuels in Santa Marta, Colombia. Representatives…

What a new ‘coalition of the willing’ means for the climate

It’s a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment, but not for climate and environmental advocates: in late April, 57 countries (including the Philippines) representing one-third of the world’s economy gathered at Santa Marta, Colombia, for the First Conference on Transitioning Away From Fossil Fuels (TAFF), a meeting borne out of tensions during 2025’s COP30 in Belém, Brazil — months before the conflict in Iran highlighted the risks and vulnerabilities of…

The Conference That Named the Problem: Santa Marta and the Beginning of the End of Fossil Fuels

The Santa Marta conference marks the first major multilateral effort outside the UN COP process to build a Global South-led roadmap for a just transition away from fossil fuels amid mounting climate breakdown and persistent obstruction by fossil fuel interests.

Fossil fuel transition summit seeks progress beyond stalled COP talks

The First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels in Santa Marta, Colombia, was viewed by many as a historic achievement and a momentous step toward ending fossil fuel dependency. After more than 30 years of U.N. Climate Change Conferences, or COPs, where the topic has been repeatedly blocked by states and lobbyists resistant to any kind of phaseout, and many have struggled to get a seat on the table, such as Indigenous and Afro-desce…

Hope and Action To Phase Out Fossil Fuels

Traveling back to Bogotá from the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels in Santa Marta, Colombia, I struggled to name a feeling I had never experienced after a climate conference: hope! The post Hope and Action To Phase Out Fossil Fuels first appeared on Amazon Watch.