Hope is contagious and science is king: 10 big lessons on ending the fossil fuel era
Key takeaways
- A Greenpeace demonstration on the beach in Santa Marta during the conference.
- The single most important thing to come from the first Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels conference, in Santa Marta, has been a change of mood.
- We are no longer fighting for recognition of the problem, but creating solutions.
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A Greenpeace demonstration on the beach in Santa Marta during the conference. Photograph: Raúl Arboleda/AFP/Getty Images View image in fullscreen A Greenpeace demonstration on the beach in Santa Marta during the conference. Photograph: Raúl Arboleda/AFP/Getty Images Climate crisis Explainer Hope is contagious and science is king: 10 big lessons on ending the fossil fuel era At world-first Santa Marta climate meeting, delegates say it was ‘euphoric’ to finally be focusing on concrete solutions
Prefer the Guardian on GoogleAfter a landmark climate meeting in Santa Marta, Colombia, where nearly 60 countries gathered to work out how to end the production and use of planet-heating fossil fuels, what have we learned?
The single most important thing to come from the first Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels conference, in Santa Marta, has been a change of mood. Whereas the UN’s annual climate summits, or Cops, can often feel stuck and frustrating, with countries circling the same topics without resolution, nearly every delegate in Colombia felt liberated.