{"id":49831,"date":"2024-01-17T13:52:03","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T13:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/?p=49831"},"modified":"2024-01-17T13:52:03","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T13:52:03","slug":"how-fossil-fuels-went-from-sidelines-to-headlines-in-climate-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2024\/01\/17\/how-fossil-fuels-went-from-sidelines-to-headlines-in-climate-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"How fossil fuels went from sidelines to headlines in climate talks"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Romain Ioualalen started a new campaigning job at Oil Change International, he was tasked with putting fossil fuels on the agenda of international climate talks.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That was in April 2020, just after the start of the pandemic. He told Climate Home recently that \u201cit seemed like a pretty distant dream\u201d at the time.<\/span><\/p>\n

In fact, he used to joke that he had \u201cfound the only international climate policy job that didn\u2019t require going to Cop because fossil fuels would never be a thing there\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

But become a thing they have.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>When Cop18 was held in Gulf oil and gas producer Qatar in 2012, the IISD think tank’s 28,000-word summary<\/a> only mentioned fossil fuels once.<\/p>\n

Those two words pop up 46 times in the same report <\/a>produced after Cop28 where governments agreed<\/a> for the first time to transition away from all fossil fuels in energy systems.<\/p>\n