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Ireland and the tiny Pacific nation of Tuvalu will co-host an international conference next July with countries that have pledged to speed up the end of oil, gas and coal. The second International Conference on the Just Transition Away from Fossil Fuels will take place in the Pacific, with a pre-conference event to be held in Ireland in the spring. It follows the inaugural transition conference co-hosted by Colombia and the Netherlands that 57 countries attended last April. The initiative stemmed from last year’s UN climate summit, Cop30, after countries were left frustrated at the slow pace of negotiations and the lack of time-lined commitment to ending fossil fuel use and the climate-changing carbon pollution it causes. Delegations from Ireland and Tuvalu met at a side event during the UN General Assembly in New York on Thursday night to formalise the arrangement. Tuvalu has a population of just 11,000 people who are living on a remote archipelago at risk of being submerged by rising sea levels. Next year’s conference is expected to take place on one of the larger Pacific islands, with possibly some ceremonial events in Tuvalu, as the country does not have infrastructure to host the several thousand...