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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Oliver Milman

Leaders of world’s major cities call for phase-out of fossil fuels

A pump jack operates in front of a drilling rig at sunset in an oil field in Midland, Texas US
The letter says it is an ‘inescapable truth’ that fossil fuels must be left behind. Photograph: Nick Oxford/Reuters

Governments must commit to bringing the fossil fuel era to a close, a group of mayors representing the world’s leading cities has demanded, amid growing pressure for an agreed phase-out of oil, gas and coal at the Cop28 climate talks.

Leaders from the nearly 200 countries at the United Nations climate summit under way in the United Arab Emirates must face the “inescapable truth” that fossil fuels must be left behind, a letter to heads of state from the C40 group, which includes the mayors of cities including New York, London, Beijing, Paris and Cape Town, states.

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