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‘Now is the hour’: Labor urged to speed up fossil fuel phase-out to justify Cop30 pledge


Despite Australia signing the Belem declaration, Albanese rejected suggestion Labor shouldn’t develop new gas fields

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The Albanese government is being urged to explain how it will drive a fossil fuel phase-out, after it joined dozens of countries at a UN climate summit to back a declaration that the world should quickly wean off coal, gas and oil.

Australia signed up to the declaration on a just transition away from fossil fuels at a side event at the Cop30 conference in the Brazilian city of Belem, which finished on Saturday night local time, more than 24 hours after the scheduled close.

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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/nov/23/now-is-the-hour-labor-urged-to-speed-up-fossil-fuel-phase-out-to-justify-cop30-pledge

Author : Adam Morton

Publish date : 2025-11-23 04:40:00

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