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Exiting fossil fuels key to energy security: nations at Colombia talks
Key takeaways
- SANTA MARTA, Colombia: The first global talks on phasing out fossil fuels kicked off in Colombia on Tuesday with nations casting an exit from oil and gas as not just a climate priority but vital for energy independence.
- Ministers are seeking to reignite the shift away from planet-heating fossil fuels at the conference in Santa Marta amid a deepening global energy crisis triggered by the Iran war.
- “We in Europe…are losing half a billion euros each day this war continues,” the EU’s climate envoy Wopke Hoekstra told delegates in the coastal city.
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SANTA MARTA, Colombia: The first global talks on phasing out fossil fuels kicked off in Colombia on Tuesday with nations casting an exit from oil and gas as not just a climate priority but vital for energy independence.
Ministers are seeking to reignite the shift away from planet-heating fossil fuels at the conference in Santa Marta amid a deepening global energy crisis triggered by the Iran war.
“We in Europe…are losing half a billion euros each day this war continues,” the EU’s climate envoy Wopke Hoekstra told delegates in the coastal city.
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