France, April 28 -- The Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels conference, held in the Caribbean city of Santa Marta and co-hosted by Colombia and the Netherlands, will see high-level talks between ministers and climate envoys on Tuesday and Wednesday.

It comes at a tense moment, amid volatility in global energy markets triggered by the conflict in the Middle East, underlining that the transition from fossil fuels is a strategic necessity as well as an environmental one.

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Participants include EU member states - Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany. Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Spain, Sweden and France - as well as the United King...