Nestle, Volvo among 130 companies urging COP28 agreement to ditch fossil fuels::Companies including Nestle , Unilever , Mahindra Group and Volvo Cars are urging political leaders to agree a timeline at the upcoming U.N. climate summit to phase out fossil fuels.

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    H-huh…? No… It can’t be…

    *runs to look out the window*

    … No, the pigs are still firmly on the ground and the sky is still blue…

    Hol’ up

    *reads the article*

    “Our businesses are feeling the impacts and cost of increasing extreme weather events resulting from climate change,” the companies wrote in the letter, which was coordinated by the non-profit We Mean Business Coalition, which is pushing for greater climate action globally.

    “To decarbonise the global energy system, we need to ramp up clean energy as fast as we phase out the use and production of fossil fuels,” they wrote.

    Oh. That checks out.

    Nevermind, false alarm guys! I thought Nestle was actually thinking of someone else for once. Whew. I was scared we’d had a reality collapse or something.