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Fossil Fuel Phaseout Coalition
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Executive Summary
A new international process in Santa Marta is pushing countries to build fossil fuel phaseout roadmaps outside the standard UN climate track. The dominant pattern is coalition-building around implementation, finance, and legal design rather than new emissions targets alone. Repeated emphasis falls on subsidy reform, renewable investment, debt constraints, labor transition, and the absence of major players such as the United States and China. The topic is coherent and current, with a dense, fast-developing governance signal that still leaves open questions about binding commitments, participation, and delivery capacity.
Key Points
- Santa Marta has become the main venue for a new coalition process on phasing down fossil fuels, with roughly 50 to 60 countries involved.
- The central output is national and regional roadmaps for coal, oil, and gas phaseout, rather than a single binding treaty.
- Finance constraints repeatedly shape the discussion, especially debt, high borrowing costs, and the need to redirect fossil fuel subsidies.
- The process is tied to broader energy transition planning, including renewables, storage, EVs, heat pumps, and infrastructure bans.
- Legal and governance issues are recurring, especially investor-state dispute settlement, fossil fuel treaty ideas, and the limits of COP-style negotiations.
- Just transition questions remain important, including labor shifts, Indigenous participation, and support for fossil-dependent economies.
- The United States and China are notably absent from the coalition process, limiting how representative and enforceable the effort appears.
Featured Article
Colombia and the Netherlands hosted a Santa Marta conference in 2024 to coordinate concrete policies and plans to phase out oil, gas, and coal.
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In Santa Marta, Colombia, 53 countries and the European Union launch a minilateral process to transition away from fossil fuels, with outputs intended to feed into COP31.
Fifty-seven countries launched a fossil fuel phaseout summit in Santa Marta, Colombia, with next steps linked to UN climate talks in Turkey in November.
On April 29 in Santa Marta, Colombia, an intergovernmental summit for fossil fuel phase-down ended without binding commitments and set working groups and a 2027 follow-up.
Colombia hosted a first fossil fuel transition conference in Santa Marta on Wednesday to align nearly 60 countries on national decarbonization roadmaps.
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Nearly 60 governments met in Santa Marta, Colombia in the past week to create fossil-fuel phaseout roadmaps amid oil price spikes tied to US-Iran tensions.
Johan Rockström and 57 countries met in Santa Marta, Colombia, to draft fossil fuel phaseout roadmaps and renewables scaling plans ahead of follow-up talks in Tuvalu.
More than 50 nations met in Santa Marta, Colombia, from 24 April to advance fossil fuel phaseout planning, including a launched Science Panel and a 12-action policy report.
Nearly 60 countries met in Santa Marta, Colombia to discuss regional plans for phasing out fossil fuels outside the UNFCCC COP process, amid major-country non-participation and limited enforceable outcomes.
Countries meeting in Santa Marta, Colombia, from 24-29 April advanced national fossil-fuel roadmaps and science advice to halt new expansion, feeding into COP30 and COP31 preparations.
Nearly 60 countries met in Santa Marta, Colombia to plan how to end fossil fuel production, emphasizing supply-side governance, finance constraints, and legal barriers such as ISDS.
FIDH urges fossil fuel phaseout through Santa Marta and COP31 roadmap negotiations during 2026, grounded in a 2025 International Court of Justice advisory opinion and human rights obligations.
In Santa Marta, Colombia, a 56-country conference ended without binding deals, aiming for future coordination on fossil fuel phaseout while emphasizing financing barriers and labor transition planning.
Colombia and the Netherlands will convene a Santa Marta conference on 28-29 April to advance a fossil-fuel phaseout and financing mechanisms after stalled UNFCCC outcomes.
Fifty-seven countries meeting in Santa Marta, Colombia plan fossil fuel phase down roadmaps addressing subsidies and renewable finance, with a follow-up in Tuvalu.
In Santa Marta, Colombia, 57 countries planned voluntary fossil-fuel reduction roadmaps after COP30 while new research warned of severe coastal Louisiana exposure.
Nearly 60 countries meeting in Santa Marta, Colombia, discussed science-led roadmaps, legal frameworks, and producer accountability to phase out fossil fuels, with next steps planned for Tuvalu in 2027.
In Santa Marta, Colombia, nearly 60 countries in 2027-focused talks agreed on national fossil fuel phaseout roadmaps alongside updates on offshore wind and Amsterdam advertising rules.