FOSSIL FUELS
Brazil hands the world a manual for quitting fossil fuels
Launch of the COP30 Presidency Roadmaps on transitioning away from fossil fuels in energy systems. Photo: COP30 Presidency
Brazil's COP30 presidency released a 182-page roadmap on Tuesday for transitioning away from fossil fuels, the first attempt to make the most contested sentence in recent climate diplomacy actionable. It came out in Brasília days before Brazil hands the presidency to Turkey at COP31 in Antalya, alongside a twin roadmap on halting deforestation by 2030.
The COP28 decision in Dubai three years ago marked "the first time that fossil fuels were explicitly addressed in the outcome of a UN climate conference." It also…
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