Everyone involved in the energy and environment conversation knows any transition away from fossil fuels and toward renewable energy will take time. Indeed, this is why it’s so consequential that the oil and gas industry has worked for decades to delay the transition, which even it now acknowledges is necessary.

G20 communique in Rio contains key lines on climate confirming world set to transition away from fossil fuels. In keeping with previous Cop summits in authoritarian countries, authorities in Azerbaijan appear to have made some limited allowances for civil society interventions during the conference.

This is particularly critical because the G20 meeting in Brazil took place after Donald Trump won the US Presidential election

Leaders of the world’s biggest economies confirmed their support to shift more cash to developing countries to help them cope with climate change.