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COP30: Big pledges on renewables and industry, but ambition falters on ending fossil fuels
Reuters ^ | 11/27/25 | Angeli Mehta

Posted on 11/28/2025 10:05:36 AM PST by DallasBiff

November 26 - The agreement reached two years ago at COP28 in Dubai seemed to signal the beginning of the end of the fossil fuel era. But the “implementation COP” that closed last Saturday in the Amazonian city of Belem in Brazil couldn’t find a route-map to make that vision a reality.

For all the recognition that emissions trajectories are nowhere near in line with the ambitions of the Paris Agreement and the window to act is rapidly closing, negotiators seem divorced from the real world. Petrostates, led by Saudi Arabia and Russia, stymied any language of ambition and even the words “fossil fuel” didn’t make it into the final statement.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: energy; fossilfeul
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Poor Reuters, they are sad that fossil fuels are not considered evil.
1 posted on 11/28/2025 10:05:36 AM PST by DallasBiff
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