Julia Simon
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first heard Nov 2024
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And for the past 30 years, countries have been coming to these UN climate conferences to discuss how to tackle global warming.
But many countries say these conferences, they're called COPs, do not have nearly enough emphasis on the need to transition away from fossil fuels.
Again, which is the main driver of climate change.
I spoke to Juan Carlos Monterey, he's special representative for climate change of Panama, about this topic.
Yeah, Emily, it took 28 years for the COP agreement to even mention transitioning away from fossil fuels.
I would say some of the countries I spoke to would say frustrating is an understatement.
Climate change is happening.
And many countries came to Belém explicitly demanding language in the final agreement about a roadmap away from fossil fuels.
In fact, many countries, like the United Kingdom, Mexico, Norway, they said they didn't want to leave the conference without that fossil fuel roadmap language.
Hmm.
Did they get their roadmap?
No.
No mention of fossil fuels.
Wow.
And so, like we said, many countries are deeply frustrated with this UN process.
It's a process by consensus, Emily.
So every country has to agree to the text of this agreement.
And you have close to 200 countries in the process.
And while Norway and Mexico are oil producers and they want a roadmap off of fossil fuels,
Some other big oil producers, like Saudi Arabia, they do not.
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