Australia has an opportunity to forge a path away from fossil fuels in its new climate negotiating gig and can expect opposing pressures from domestic coal and gas interests and Pacific nations.
No formal agreement was reached on a road map to phase out oil, coal and gas at the 2025 Conference of the Parties summit in Brazil, but Australia was among 80 signatories of the Belem Declaration in support of a plan to ditch the polluting fuels.
