Climate Politics
Colombia Urges World to Quit Fossil Fuels as Its Own Effort Founders
President Gustavo Petro’s push to exit oil, gas and coal has collided with an energy shortage.
A worker pushes a wagon of coking coal to a kiln at a Carbomax de Colombia facility near Cucuta, Colombia, in 2023.
Photographer: Ferley Ospina/BloombergColombia is leading the charge to map out a global transition from oil, gas and coal at the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil. “The time is now. History demands that we act,” said Colombia’s Environment Minister Irene Vélez Torres earlier this week.