Winston Churchill is credited with the expression, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” The climate crisis surely qualifies. The energy we release and harness by burning fossil fuels comes from ...

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The annual UN climate change conference held in Brazil last year, known as COP30, concluded without a clear roadmap to phase out fossil fuels. It also laid bare a question that has long haunted ...

In a review published in the journal Oxford Open Climate Change, top scientists issued an urgent warning that fossil fuels and the fossil fuel industry are driving interlinked crises that threaten ...

Aerial view of solar panels powering Hernan Sarmiento's grocery store in Santa Marta, Magdalena department, Colombia, on April 20, 2026. Reporter More than 50 countries are meeting today in Santa ...

The world’s first fossil fuel phaseout conference gathers 57 countries representing over 50% of global GDP, signaling a major shift in climate policy, energy security and global markets.

Against the backdrop of an energy crisis and a warming planet, more than 50 countries have come to Santa Marta, Colombia, to discuss concrete ways to phase out oil, gas and coal.

Two years ago, countries around the world set a goal of “transitioning away from fossil fuels in energy systems in a just, orderly and equitable manner.” The plan included tripling renewable energy ...

The United Nations’ COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, known as “the Amazon COP,” wrapped on November 22nd. Powerful petrostates and large polluting nations succeeded in blocking inclusion of a ...

Delegates from more than 50 countries are gathering in Santa Marta, Colombia, from April 24 to 29 at the first-ever Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels. The conference’s stated aim is ...