[Peakoil] The Climate Talks Find an Enemy at COP20: The Fossil Fuel Industry | Jamie Henn

[Antony Broughton Barry]

Quote: The UN Climate Talks in Paris next December are shaping up be high noon for the fossil fuel industry.
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But one theme is emerging loud and clear: if the world is serious about addressing the climate crisis, we must get off fossil fuels--completely. This is a new frame for the climate negotiations and it's revolutionary in its implications.

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While countries still play a central role in the negotiations, a new actor has taken the stage: the fossil fuel industry. I've been coming to the climate talks since 2005 and I've never heard more discussion about the need to leave fossil fuels in the ground and radically transform the industry as we know it.

I'm not the only one. Earlier today, the Associated Press ran a piece about how a "zero emissions" goal has been quickly gaining traction, with over 100 countries adopting the target. Yesterday, Leonardo DiCaprio tweeted out the news that the new climate text would "end fossil fuels" by 2050.

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