The United Kingdom scrapped a ban on shale gas production, Norway searches for oil deep in the Arctic, and the United States begs drilling companies to extract more.
Many of the world's largest countries are backtracking, or slowing down, on some of their plans to move away from fossil fuels.
But that is not the case in Colombia. Its first leftist president, Gustavo Petro, has stopped offering new licenses for oil exploration in Latin America's third-largest producer.
He is also pushing Congress, through legislation he outlined on his first day in office, to increase taxes on energy . . .
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