Overview
- High-level talks in Santa Marta on Tuesday brought more than 50 governments to share how-to policies for moving off coal, oil and gas outside the UN’s consensus process.
- France used the meeting Tuesday to publish a national roadmap that ends coal by 2030, oil by 2045 and gas by 2050 for energy use, framing a full-economy shift.
- A scientific panel circulated a 12-point menu that includes stopping new fossil extraction and infrastructure, alongside subsidy reforms and electrification steps.
- Delegates put financing at the center, pointing to high borrowing costs and debt that make clean projects pricier in developing countries and lock economies into fossil revenues.
- The forum is non-binding and excludes the US, China, India and Gulf producers, with organizers set to carry proposals into upcoming UN talks and a follow-up meeting hosted by Tuvalu.