""Here, you have a coalition of governments that decided they actually want to be informed by the science," says Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh, an international climate-change law specialist at the University of Amsterdam."
"Researchers say it's refreshing to have an international forum where they are free to make ambitious recommendations."
Representatives from more than 50 countries convened in Santa Marta, Colombia, for the first global summit focused on phasing out fossil fuels. The meeting aimed to establish a Science Panel for the Global Energy Transition to guide nations in shifting to clean energy. The summit was initiated by Colombia and the Netherlands after frustrations with oil-producing nations at the UN COP30 summit. A report was released outlining 12 actions for supporting fossil-fuel phaseout, emphasizing the need for ambitious recommendations in an independent forum.
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