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At COP28, Oil-Rich Colombia Moves to End Fossil Fuels and Protect Forests

Colombia is making bold moves at the United Nations COP28 climate talks to end the use of fossil fuels and enhance the role forests play as a climate solution.

Despite being the leader of one of the world’s top 25 oil producing nations, Colombian President Gustavo Petro joined a call to phase out fossil fuels.

“Some may ask, why would the president of this country want to commit suicide with an economy that relies on fossil fuels?” Petro told the COP28 delegates in Dubai. “We are trying to halt a suicide, the death of everything that is alive.”

Political scientist and environmentalist Susana Muhamad is Colombia’s minister of environment and sustainable development. Muhamad is tasked with guiding the move away from oil and gas and halting deforestation in Colombia’s vast and biodiverse forests, which include portions of the Amazon basin. Doing so will take far greater investment, she said. (Read more at Newsweek.com)

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Facts About Our Environment

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