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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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[–] 36 points 11 months ago (13 children)

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

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] -2 points 11 months ago* (8 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    3rd world countries that need cheap energy are to blame instead of one of the richest countries selling stuff because it wants to be richer?

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (2 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

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

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

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