The global fight to end fossil fuels

You and I both know that fossil fuels are the main cause of climate change, right? It’s a very basic fact, and yet to look at the global response to the crisis, you wouldn’t know it. The Paris Agreement doesn’t mention fossil fuels. Year after year, international negotiations fail to agree to phase them out. With a handful of exceptions, governments talk about their net zero ambitions while still planning to exploit their remaining reserves of oil, coal and gas.

Just last week at the G20, UK...