Cop30 Debriefed 21 November 2025 Mutirão Text Carbon Brief

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Welcome to Carbon Brief’s DeBriefed. An essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate change. ‘MUTIRÃO’ 2.0: After many late nights, but little progress – and a dramatic fire at the COP30 venue – the much-awaited second draft of the summit’s key agreement, called the “mutirão” text, finally dropped... The new mutirão text “calls for efforts to triple adaptation finance” by 2030 and would launch a presidency-led “Belém mission to 1.5C” alongside a voluntary “implementation accelerator”, as well as a series of “dialogues”... It “decides to establish” a two-year work programme on climate finance, including on a key section of the Paris Agreement called Article 9.1, but has a footnote saying this will not “prejudge” how the... Subscribe to receive the latest developments from leading newspapers, journals and specialist websites, hand-picked and written up by our expert team.

ROADMAPS TO NOWHERE: The latest draft does not refer to the idea of a “fossil-fuel roadmap”, which is not on the COP30 agenda, but has been pushed by Brazil’s president Luiz Inácio Lula da... A letter to the presidency, seen by Carbon Brief and reportedly backed by at least 29 countries, including Colombia, Germany, Palau, Mexico and the UK, says: “We cannot support an outcome that does not... The letter asks for a revised text. PLENARY WHEN: The latest draft of the mutirão text is unlikely to be the last. There is also a set of draft decisions that have not been fully resolved. For instance, this morning, the Brazilian COP presidency floated a draft decision on what it is calling the “Belém gender action plan”, with three brackets versus the 496 brackets in the previous version.

At a short, informal stocktaking plenary, COP30 president André Corrêa do Lago invited countries to react to the drafts in a “mutirão” meeting, namely, in the “spirit of cooperation”. But expect all timings to be flexible, as they work to iron out differences in closed-door meetings. What’s happened this week in climate change? Read the latest issue of Carbon Brief’s weekly newsletter, DeBriefed, here ⬇️ https://buff.ly/4tDXWhm In this issue: 📚 A second – but unlikely final – version of COP30’s key mutirão text emerged. 📈 On COP’s final scheduled day, a chart showed how most climate talks overrun. 💼 Key dates for next week and pick of the job vacancies.

💡 Spotlight | Carbon Brief explains the calls for fossil-fuel and deforestation “roadmaps” at COP. ✍ Daisy Dunne Josh Gabbatiss Molly Lempriere Orla Dwyer Simon Evans Cecilia Keating Roz Pidcock Ayesha Tandon Anika Patel Aruna Chandrasekhar Sign up to DeBriefed here ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/gteR7bTu #DeBriefed #ClimateNews #ClimateChange Brazil’s COP30 presidency urged countries to unite to reach a deal in Belém on Friday as divisions erupted over a roadmap to transition from fossil fuels, which was omitted from the main draft “Mutirão”... Talks dragged on into the evening on what is meant to be the final day of the summit, after many countries expressed concerns that a proposed package was too weak. The “Global Mutirão” and other draft texts put out by the COP30 presidency in the early morning make no reference to roadmaps for shifting away from oil, gas and coal, nor for halting deforestation,... Citing those omissions and concerns over finance, a group of 29 countries – from Europe, Latin America and small island states – wrote a joint letter to the Brazilian COP30 presidency expressing “deep concern”...

They said they were “concerned by emerging narratives suggesting that ambitious countries are slowing progress” and “the challenge arises when a package that omits essential elements is presented with the expectation of unconditional acceptance,... European Union Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra said the text was “no way close to the ambition we need on mitigation [and] we are disappointed with the text currently on the table”. Following a dramatic fire and evacuation yesterday afternoon, negotiations restarted and continued into the night, with the COP30 presidency putting out a series of draft texts, including the main “Mutirão” cover decision at 3am... What’s most contentious is what’s not in them. There are no roadmaps for transitioning away from fossil fuels or for halting deforestation, as called for by Brazil’s president and around half of countries. Because of these omissions and concerns on finance, a group of 29 countries – from Europe, Latin America and small islands – wrote a joint letter to the Brazilian COP presidency expressing their “deep...

“The legacy of the Presidency in making COP30 a milestone moment will depend on the quality – rather than the speed – of the outcome,” they wrote, adding “a weak text would be remembered... They added that they are “concerned by emerging narratives suggesting that ambitious countries are slowing progress” and “the challenge arises when a package that omits essential elements is presented with the expectation of unconditional... They call for the presidency to submit a revised proposal and not ask them to “accept only what the least ambitious are willing to allow”. EU Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra said the text is “no way close to the ambition we need on mitigation” and “we are disappointed with the text currently on the table”. Greenpeace climate politics expert Tracy Carty also objected to the lack of roadmaps on deforestation and fossil fuels and called for countries to reject the text. She added that it “might as well be blank as it does so little to bridge the 1.5C ambition gap or push countries to accelerate action”.

All governments are scheduled to gather for a plenary meeting around 10 or 11am, where fireworks are likely. Vague goal to triple adaptation finance included The draft text does include a “call for efforts” for developed countries to triple adaptation finance compared to 2025 levels by 2030 and “urges” developed countries to... But it has no numbers attached to it. EU climate commissioner Wopke Hoekstra said the European Union is “willing to be ambitious on adaptation, but we would like to make clear that any language on finance should squarely be within the commitment... That goal did not include a specific share for adaptation of the $300 billion a year in public finance promised to developing countries by 2035. The tripling idea emanated from the Least Developed Countries in Bonn in June and was later picked up by other developing countries.

With indicators for the Global Goal on Adaptation being negotiated in a separate room, developing countries have argued that deciding on metrics to measure adaptation has little point if developed countries are not going... “Calls” is the same verb used in the COP26 pledge – which is off track – for developed countries to double adaptation finance by 2025. “Calls” is one of the softer verbs used in climate talks, weaker than “instructs”, “urges”, “invites” or “encourages”. And the baseline – and lack of a quantitative target – will likely raise concerns. Developing countries want a tripling from the amount of adaptation finance developed countries should be providing in 2025, which would be an increase from at least $40bn to $120bn a year. If calculated from actual 2025 adaptation finance levels, analysis by CARE and Oxfam suggests that is likely to be around $25 billion, though exact figures will not be available until 2027.

Using that baseline rather than the 2025 goal could shave about $50 billion a year off what developing countries can expect in 2030, which will not meet rapidly rising needs amid worsening droughts, floods,... Greenpeace’s Rebecca Newsom said the tripling adaptation goal is “not strong enough” and “vulnerable countries are again left to deal with the escalating impacts of climate change without sufficient plans to unlock the public... Tricky issues of trade, finance and emissions cuts covered The ‘Mutirao’ text covers the contentious issues which competing negotiating blocks tried, and failed, to get on the COP agenda. It proposes outcomes including new initiatives, talks and calls – but nothing concrete and significant. On emissions-cutting ambition – a small island and EU priority – the text proposes the creation of a “Global Implementation Accelerator” and a “Belem Mission to 1.5” – both aimed at helping countries improve... Governments are also “encourage[d]” to strengthen their existing NDC climate plans “at any time with a view toenhancing its level of ambition”.

On finance – a developing country priority – the text “decides” to scale up finance for developing countries and “calls for enhanced efforts” to meet the COP29 promise to triple annual outflows of funds... And it promises a “roundtable” of senior ministers on how they’re meeting the finance goal decided at COP29. On the nexus between trade and climate – an emerging economy priority to discuss – it requests three annual dialogues at the June Bonn sessions. An African trade negotiator told Climate Home News it was “a start” but disappointing that there is not a “full COP item on it”. “It’s like they want to kill it but in a polite way,” the negotiator said. The post COP30 Bulletin Day 11: Countries revolt as new text leaves out fossil fuel transition roadmap appeared first on Climate Home News.

Greetings from Belém and from COP30/CMP 20/CMA 7! To the wire: talks on the Mutirão text continued in an informal meeting of heads of delegations this afternoon, while technical negotiations on Article 6 were brought to a successful conclusion. Photos: UNFCCC The atmosphere in the Blue Zone remained somewhat tense late on Friday night as Parties wrangled over the content of the Mutirão text, in which the main contentious issues included Article 9.1 finance, the... We heard from observers that the EU and other groups are unhappy with the draft language on ambition and NDCs, while the African group has emphasised the need for more focus on means of... Meanwhile, the Arab group and Like-Minded Developing Countries underlined their opposition to any language on fossil fuels.The growing constituency calling for a roadmap to a fossil fuel phase-out also added to the tension.

Colombia and the Netherlands announced during the day that they would host an international conference on the just transition away from fossil fuels next April.While this isn't quite as emphatic as the 80-plus countries... A group of Like-Minded Developing Countries and others had managed to remove any language on fossil fuels from the Mutirão text.Given the entrenched views on all sides late into Friday, there remained a not-insignificant... He spoke of the need to maintain the spirit of multilateralism, and made more than one reference to the absence of the world's largest economy from these talks.He then immediately convened a meeting of... However, an anticipated announcement by Turkey was postponed amid what we heard were disagreements over the division of responsibilities.Don't forget to register for our post-COP briefing webinars, which we'll hold on Tuesday November 23... Speakers will include IETA President and CEO Dirk Forrister; International Policy Director Andrea Bonzanni; Policy analysts Pedro Venzon and Agustina Cundari; negotiators Simon Fellermeyer of Switzerland; Cristina Figueroa Vargas of Chile; Martina Pittella of... As the scheduled deadline neared, COP30 president André Corrêa do Lago urged Parties to bridge their differences over Brazil's headline Mutirão text.

Photo: COP30. In the negotiationsParties met this morning in an informal setting to discuss the most recent draft texts – which we shared with you yesterday.Our observers report that the texts for Article 6.2, Article 6.4... The text as agreed today does not reopen past decisions or give the Supervisory Body any new mandate.The negotiations on guidance to the clean development mechanism were also completed, with a draft text sent... The agreed financial transfer from the CDM Trust Fund will provide “operational capital” to the Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism until it becomes self-funding, which the decision text aims for in 2035.We will unpack the... As the 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) moves into its decisive final stretch, with the summit slated to officially conclude shortly, the revised... The COP30 Presidency has stripped out most bracketed options, softened earlier finance obligations, and narrowed language on trade and energy, steering the talks toward a more politically workable package designed to keep 1.5°C “within...

Stripped of earlier political options, the new draft lays out a unified, consensus-oriented roadmap blending equity, urgency and international cooperation. It frames COP30 as a “COP of Truth,” acknowledging the rapidly shrinking carbon budget and asserting that the transition to low-emission, climate-resilient development is “irreversible.” Notably, the Presidency has deleted the previously floated roadmap to “transition away from fossil fuels,” a prominent political marker in the November 18 draft — a removal that underscores the sensitivity of energy language... “Mutirão” is a Brazilian tradition of collective, community-driven mobilisation — a spirit the Presidency seeks to translate into global climate action. The proposal aims to close the gap between pledges and delivery and serves as Brazil’s high-stakes blueprint for COP30, centred on accelerating progress in energy, finance and trade. At the centre of the document are two flagship Presidency initiatives:

The Global Mutirão text was intended as an attempt to address four crucial issues that were left out of the COP30 agenda: the ambition and implementation gaps of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), the... Although the premises were good, the results lack ambition. To address the NDC gap, it was decided to launch a Global Implementation Accelerator and a Belém Mission to 1.5. The former is presented as a voluntary initiative, led by the COP30 and COP31 Presidencies, to accelerate implementation efforts by all actors to keep 1.5°C within reach and to support countries in realizing their... The latter, under the leadership of the COP29, COP30, and COP31 Presidencies, aims to enable ambition and implementation of NDCs and NAPs by reflecting on how to accelerate implementation, international cooperation, and investments. At the end, the Roadmap for transitioning away from fossil fuels, pushed by the Brazilian Presidency, did not go through.

In fact, any reference to fossil fuels is entirely missing from the text, while the decisions from the Dubai Global Stocktake are only recalled in their entirety, without specific mention of the more ambitious... As a result, the outcome fails to make progress on mitigation—an essential element for achieving the Paris Agreement’s climate goal and limiting end-century global warming to 1.5°C. With regard to climate finance, it was decided to establish a two-year work programme, also including Article 9.1 within the context of Article 9. The adaptation finance goal is framed as an effort to at least triple it by 2035 compared to 2019 levels, with a call on developed countries to increase their trajectory in this respect. This objective falls within the decision taken last year in Baku to mobilize at least USD 300 billion per year for developing countries from developed countries (also counting climate-related flows from Multilateral Development Banks... This outcome is very weak compared to the request made by the least developed countries to set a goal of tripling adaptation finance by 2030 relative to 2025 levels.

On carbon border adjustment measures, the subsidiary bodies are requested to hold dialogues at the June sessions of 2026, 2027, and 2028, with the participation of Parties and other stakeholders, to consider opportunities, challenges,... At the same time, paragraph 3.5 of the UNFCCC is reaffirmed, stating that all Parties should cooperate to promote an open and supportive international economic system, and that measures to combat climate change, including... Although the text clearly acknowledges the existence of serious pre-2020 ambition and implementation gaps on the part of developed countries, the negotiated response remains dramatically insufficient.As of November 2025, only 122 Parties have submitted...

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