'We represent a new force': Nearly 60 nations push ahead with fossil fuel exit

'We represent a new force': Nearly 60 nations push ahead with fossil fuel exit Environment

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Issued on: 27/04/2026 - 16:28

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Some 60 countries are gathering in the coastal city of Santa Marta in Colombia to tackle an issue that has deadlocked UN climate talks: how to exist fossil fuels. It's the first global conference of its kind, bringing together nations that want to accelerate a fossil fuel phaseout, despite a decades-long stalemate at the UN-level COP summits. Our Environment Editor Valerie Dekimpe tells us more. 

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• Fossil fuels
• climate change
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