The countries committed to permanently ending fossil fuel use now far outnumber those against. Their problem? Their chief organising conference, the 30-year-old COP conferences, comes with vetoes from the petro-states. This year, 1,600 fossil industry lobbyists attended, and they managed to get any mention of fossil fuels scrubbed from the final agreement.
This ridiculous state of affairs can’t continue, and this is a classic move to break the deadlock. Sideline COP & the petrostates, by creating an alternative, they don’t have power in.
Coal use != coal mining. Exporting shit to make yourself look cleaner is not how it works. It is exactly as bad.
That was supposed to be in regards to Australia? We don’t use coal, but boy do we mine it.
To what are you replying to really? Does it say anywhere in the original article that the new conference is about the reduction of coal use but not mining? I haven’t found any indications of that; instead, I see mentions that they want to reduce overall “coal dependency” and “coal extraction”:
https://fossilfueltreaty.org/first-international-conference
I think such a trivial thought has come to the organizers of this conference and it’s well addressed.
I originally replied to someone, must have ended up in the wrong place.
Ah NP then. Peace!
feel free to take it up with the countries buying it, or is it just the west that has to reduce its dependence on coal?
3rd world countries that need cheap energy are to blame instead of one of the richest countries selling stuff because it wants to be richer?
if they need cheap energy renewables are the cheapest, especially with the 3rd worlds links to China, building coal power plants is just ignorance
So they all(!) do not know better and use more expensive stuff why?
Oh they know it, they just don’t care, good article:
https://thediplomat.com/2025/09/funding-coal-powered-nickel-in-indonesian-is-a-climate-disaster/
If Australia stops selling coal, it will get more expensive and other countries will have more reasons to use renewables
renewables are already the cheapest form of power, there’s no excuse to be building new coal power plants in 2025