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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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[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

if they need cheap energy renewables are the cheapest, especially with the 3rd worlds links to China, building coal power plants is just ignorance

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So they all(!) do not know better and use more expensive stuff why?

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

Oh they know it, they just don't care, good article:

Producing nickel is causing a staggering amount of climate pollution, and Indonesia knows it.

https://thediplomat.com/2025/09/funding-coal-powered-nickel-in-indonesian-is-a-climate-disaster/