Climate Politics

How Coal Giant Colombia Is Trying to Wean Its Economy Off Fossil Fuels

At COP28 in Dubai, South America’s largest coal producer joined the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty — inspired by the 1970 agreement on nuclear weapons. 

A worker shovels coal at a facility near Cucuta, Colombia, in March.

Photographer: Ferley Ospina/Bloomberg
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