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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)

renewables are already the cheapest form of power, there's no excuse to be building new coal power plants in 2025

[–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, but the smaller the difference is, the less stupid they have to be to make the wrong decision. The bigger the difference is, the more nincompoops will make the right decision.

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

as in my other post, they don’t give a shit, they are digging up the majority of their own coal anyway