The first international conference on transitioning away from fossil fuels will be held in Santa Marta, Colombia, from April 24th to 29th.
This is a unique opportunity for climate diplomacy, a voluntary initiative launched following COP30, held in Belém in 2025. The conference, promoted by the governments of Colombia and the Netherlands, complements the COP climate talks and brings together more than 50 governments interested in taking concrete steps and accelerating commitments to the transition away from fossil fuels, alongside a broad, diverse, and horizontal global coalition of thousands of stakeholders: Indigenous nationalities, Afro-descendant communities, movements, NGOs, civil society, universities, research centers, foundations, Nobel laureates, and governments.
The Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on Just Fossil Fuel Transitions (University of Padua) participates in the various initiatives, contributing with academic reflections and scientific research on the geovisualization of territories for spatial and climate justice based on multi-criteria geographic analysis to imagine and define just transition pathways.
The Centre will also provide a daily newsletter with the most noteworthy insights from the conference.
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On April 29th, the Centre of Excellence JFFT will co-organize the parallel event “Between Amazon and Arctic Place based just fossil fuel transitions away. Panel on: geovisualization of yasunization multitudes” (10:00 – 12:00 AM in the Auditorio Roque Morelli, Universidad of Magdalena, Santa Marta, 5:00-7:00 PM CET)“.
The event will open and dual (at the University of Magdalena and via Zoom) and in two languages: Spanish and English.
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