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More than 50 governments meet in Colombia on Tuesday against the backdrop of the Iran war and a global energy crunch for the first international talks on phasing out planet-heating fossil fuels.<\/p>\n

Ministers and climate envoys aim to revive the transition from fossil fuels at the inaugural conference in Santa Marta, one of the country’s busiest coal hubs in a nation heavily reliant on energy exports.<\/p>\n

The two-day conference bypasses the United Nations climate talks and reflects a growing impatience with its failure to tackle fossil fuels, the main driver of global warming.<\/p>\n

“People seem refreshed to be able to talk about these issues without having to sort of argue the existential question of — do we need to do this at all?” the UK’s special climate envoy Rachel Kyte told AFP in Santa Marta on Monday.<\/p>\n

As government delegates arrived Monday, climate activists and Indigenous groups protested against fossil fuels on the streets and beaches of the Caribbean port town where coal tankers dot the ocean horizon.<\/p>\n

The conference is not expected to produce binding commitments but a scientific panel has asked governments taking part to consider a halt on new fossil fuel expansion, among other proposals.<\/p>\n

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On the list of attendees are major fossil fuel producers Canada, Norway and Australia and developing oil giants Nigeria, Angola and Brazil.<\/p>\n

They join major energy consuming nations in the European Union, coal-reliant emerging markets Turkey and Vietnam, and small island nation states extremely vulnerable to climate shocks.<\/p>\n

The world’s biggest emitters of greenhouse gases — including the United States, China and India — are not attending, nor are oil-rich Gulf states.<\/p>\n

The conference was announced late last year but organizers say the U.S.-Israel attacks on Iran had bolstered the case for a fossil fuel phaseout as nations confronted a sudden shortage of oil and gas.<\/p>\n

“Fossil fuels are now clearly to be seen as a source of instability,” Kyte told AFP in an interview.<\/p>\n

Many nations “are here in good faith to really work through what is a very complex challenge made more urgent by the crisis,” she added.<\/p>\n

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This includes developing nations highly dependent on fossil fuel revenue like Colombia, which is co-hosting the conference with the Netherlands.<\/p>\n

Among other agenda items, nations will consider how to equitably reduce fossil fuel production and consumption, and reforming subsidies that throw up barriers to renewable energy investment.<\/p>\n

Analysis by the International Institute for Sustainable Development on Monday showed that governments still spent five times more public money on fossil fuels than renewable alternatives.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, a scientific panel released a 12-point “menu” of policy options that included “halting all new and expanding fossil fuel extraction and infrastructure projects.”<\/p>\n

“Without a doubt, there is no justification whatsoever for any new exploration of fossil fuels,” the Brazilian scientist Carlos Nobre, a former member of the U.N.’s climate advisory panel, told AFP in Santa Marta.<\/p>\n

Even as record amounts of investment flows into renewable energy, scientists warn the pace is still too slow to keep global temperature rises to safer levels.<\/p>\n

“Even if we carried out no new exploration, the amount of fossil fuels — oil, coal, and natural gas — that already exists will push temperatures up to two and a half degrees by 2050,” Nobre said.<\/p>\n

The world has already warmed about 1.4C above pre-industrial times and is tracking to blow past 1.5C in a matter of years.<\/p>\n

Above that threshold, scientists warn that coral reefs and Greenland ice sheets could disappear, among other catastrophic and irreversible impacts.<\/p>\n

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More than 50 governments meet in Colombia on Tuesday against the backdrop of the Iran war and a global energy crunch for the first international talks on phasing out planet-heating fossil fuels. Ministers and climate envoys aim to revive the transition from fossil fuels at the inaugural conference in Santa Marta, one of the country’s…<\/p>\n

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