Cop26 host the UK has declined to join an international alliance aiming to end new oil and gas projects, leaving a small group of other countries led by Costa Rica and Denmark to forge a path away from fossil fuels.
France, Greenland, Ireland and Sweden were among around a dozen nations and regions to join the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance at the Cop26 summit on Thursday. Announcing the pact to a crowded press room, Danish climate minister Dan Jorgensen said: “We hope today will mark the beginning of the end of oil and gas.
“When I talk to scientists, citizens and activists, they all want one thing more than anything else: bold and tangible action. Not talk action. That is what the alliance is here to deliver.”
Costa Rica’s minister of environment Andrea Meza said tackling the climate crisis required a “decisive phase-out of oil and gas production”.
“We invite other national and subnational governments to join Boga and align their oil and gas production with the goals of the Paris Agreement,” she said. The world’s largest oil producers, the US, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Canada and China, have not joined the alliance.
Though the UK is not a signee to the pact, Wales has joined and the alliance is currently “in talks” with Scotland, Mr Jorgensen announced on Thursday. He refused to comment on the UK’s decision to not join the alliance, but told reporters: “How can you defend wanting to be carbon neutral in 2050, as some countries do, but still wanting to produce oil and gas and selling it others? That, in our view, does not add up.”
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