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24 nations, incl. Australia, Britain, & The Netherlands will form a breakaway conference from the annual COP conference, without the petro-states, focused on permanently ending fossil fuel use. (futurology.today)
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The countries committed to permanently ending fossil fuel use now far outnumber those against. Their problem? Their chief organising conference, the 30-year-old COP conferences, comes with vetoes from the petro-states. This year, 1,600 fossil industry lobbyists attended, and they managed to get any mention of fossil fuels scrubbed from the final agreement.

This ridiculous state of affairs can't continue, and this is a classic move to break the deadlock. Sideline COP & the petrostates, by creating an alternative, they don't have power in.

The first ever International Conference on the Just Transition Away from Fossil Fuels, scheduled for April 2026.

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[-] Eheran@lemmy.world 22 points 7 hours ago

Coal use != coal mining. Exporting shit to make yourself look cleaner is not how it works. It is exactly as bad.

[-] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

feel free to take it up with the countries buying it, or is it just the west that has to reduce its dependence on coal?

[-] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 2 points 2 hours ago

If Australia stops selling coal, it will get more expensive and other countries will have more reasons to use renewables

[-] vas@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

To what are you replying to really? Does it say anywhere in the original article that the new conference is about the reduction of coal use but not mining? I haven't found any indications of that; instead, I see mentions that they want to reduce overall "coal dependency" and "coal extraction":

transitioning away from fossil fuel extraction
oil, gas, and coal extraction
global effort to phase out coal

https://fossilfueltreaty.org/first-international-conference

I think such a trivial thought has come to the organizers of this conference and it's well addressed.

[-] Eheran@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

I originally replied to someone, must have ended up in the wrong place.

[-] vas@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago

Ah NP then. Peace!

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