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France unveils roadmap to ditch all fossil fuels by 2050

French refinery workers strike outside TotalEnergies’ Donges site in western France, as France now sets deadlines to phase out coal by 2030, oil by 2045 and gas by 2050. AP - Jeremias Gonzalez

Santa Marta (Colombia) (AFP) – France on Tuesday announced a "first of its kind" plan to phase out coal by 2030, oil by 2045 and gas by 2050 during a global conference aimed at breaking reliance on fossil fuels.

The "roadmap" was published as dozens of nations gather in Santa Marta, Colombia for the first-ever international talks on how to transition away from planet-heating fossil fuels.

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