Cop30 Ends Without Clear Climate Roadmap World Wildlife Fund

The global climate summit, COP30, in Belém, Brazil, promised much – but didn’t deliver the decisive steps the world urgently needs. Countries approved a set of modest actions but failed to secure agreements on the most crucial issues. Following a year when global temperatures topped 1.5°C for a whole year for the first time, the formal talks concluded without a roadmap to transition away from fossil fuels – the single biggest cause... And despite the summit being held against the backdrop of the Amazon rainforest, there was also no agreement on a roadmap to end deforestation by 2030. The most significant formal decision was the approval of a just transition mechanism to strengthen international cooperation and support developing nations through the shift to renewable energy. The final Preamble also included welcome references to Indigenous Peoples, local communities, ocean, and science.

Negotiators were unable to agree on any direct mention of the transition away from fossil fuels in the formal texts, despite support from at least 86 countries. Similarly, the wider political will needed to secure a plan to halt and reverse deforestation by 2030 was lacking. Responding to this diplomatic impasse, the COP Presidency announced that Brazil would lead international initiatives to develop roadmaps for transitioning away from fossil fuels and ending deforestation. These discussions will take place outside the formal negotiations, reporting back at COP31 next year. Climate Action Network International (CAN) welcomes the adoption of the Just Transition mechanism as one of the strongest rights-based outcomes in the history of the UN climate negotiations. At the same time, CAN warns that COP30 has produced weak outcomes in the very areas that are critical to ensuring justice for vulnerable and frontline communities.

A dangerously weak outcome on Adaptation finance leaves little hope for impacted communities. Further adding to this injustice, governments did not deliver a concrete global response plan to address the ambition gap, and only agreed to have further processes to address this gap including on a just,... We need implementation that includes finance to urgently address the root cause of the climate crisis. The real faultline running through COP30 was the refusal of developed countries to agree to the provision of finance across all areas. Their blocking of commitments on Adaptation finance, mitigation ambition, and the transition away from fossil fuels directly weakened the overall outcome. By once again failing to meet their climate-finance obligations – obligations grounded in historical responsibility – developed countries have undermined trust and fairness in the process and limited what this COP could have achieved.

The Just Transition mechanism stands as the major achievement of COP30 and for workers and communities across the world. More ambition on climate is possible if we put social justice at the heart. No COP decision has ever carried such ambitious and comprehensive language on rights and inclusion: human rights; labour rights; the rights of Indigenous Peoples, Afro-decendants; and strong references to gender equality, women’s empowerment, education,... This outcome did not happen by accident. This is the result of the hard fought struggles and collective power of trade unions, communities, social movements, Indigenous Peoples’ organisations, and civil society over many years and especially escalating this year for an... The 2025 UN climate talks wrapped on Saturday, Nov.

22 after negotiations pushed into overtime. The resulting decision secured some important wins, both inside and outside the negotiations. But it omitted some of the big-ticket items many hoped to see. With efforts to halt temperature rise severely off track and climate disasters becoming ever-more destructive, the summit (COP30) aimed to establish clear pathways to deliver past pledges and put the world on a safer... A key question was how countries would address lagging ambition in their new climate commitments (NDCs). Hopes that countries would commit to roadmaps to end fossil fuel use and halt deforestation were ultimately dashed after opposition from petrostates.

The final decision only included new voluntary initiatives to accelerate national climate action, though the Brazilian Presidency intends to move forward with fossil fuel and deforestation roadmaps outside of the formal COP talks. Building resilience to climate impacts took center stage, with COP30 securing a new target to triple finance for climate adaptation. The COP also laid out practical solutions to increase finance for the low-carbon transition. In an era of trade wars and tariffs, negotiators also agreed for the first time to hold discussions on how trade policies can help — or hinder — climate action. Against the backdrop of the Amazon, nature also saw advances, including a new fund for tropical forest conservation. Indigenous Peoples and other local communities were recognized like never before.

And outside the formal negotiations, the summit saw a raft of new pledges and action plans from cities, states, countries and the private sector. It is clear that we are moving from negotiations to implementation, and from wrangling over what to do to how to do it. These victories matter. It shows that international cooperation can still deliver, despite deepening divides on climate action and a difficult geopolitical context. Belém, Brazil – What started with strong hope and promise ended without actionable roadmaps to end forest destruction and the burning of fossil fuels, as geopolitical divisions again showcased the disconnection with people calling... The first COP in the Amazon rainforest should have delivered an action plan to end forest destruction by 2030 and after 2035 climate action plans fell dangerously short, COP30 should also have delivered a...

It did neither. Nor did it deliver a meaningful step-up in climate finance. The final day of the COP was marked by an objection raised by Colombia and other Latin American countries over a lack of progress in climate mitigation, leading to a temporary suspension of the... Carolina Pasquali, Executive Director, Greenpeace Brazil said: “President Lula set the bar high in calling for roadmaps to end fossil fuels and deforestation, but a divided multilateral landscape was unable to hurdle it. This was a crossroad – a properly funded path to 1.5°C or a highway to climate catastrophe – and while many governments are willing to act, a powerful minority is not.” “This weak outcome doesn’t do justice to everything else that happened in Belém.

The biggest Indigenous participation in a climate COP, but also the marches and protests organised outside led to the demarcation of 14 lands – four of those in the very final stage of the... The two roadmaps and a strong finance outcome would have provided a historic result to raise ambition, but the work now continues.” Jasper Inventor, Deputy Programme Director, Greenpeace International said: “COP30 started with a bang of ambition but ended with a whimper of disappointment. This was the moment to move from negotiations to implementation – and it slipped. The outcome failed to match the urgency demanded. The 1.5°C limit is not just under threat, it’s almost gone.

It’s this reality that exposes the hypocrisy of inaction of COP after COP after COP.” Seth Borenstein, Associated Press Seth Borenstein, Associated Press Melina Walling, Associated Press Melina Walling, Associated Press Anton L. Delgado, Associated Press Anton L. Delgado, Associated Press

BELEM, Brazil (AP) — United Nations climate talks in Brazil reached a subdued agreement Saturday to deliver more money to countries hit hardest by climate change to help them adapt to extreme weather’s wrath. But the agreement doesn’t include an explicit detailed map to phase out fossil fuels or strengthen inadequate emissions cutting plans. The Brazilian hosts of the conference said they’d eventually come up with a road map to get away from fossil fuels working with hardline Colombia, but it won’t have the same force as something... Nations clinched a deal at the UN's COP30 climate summit in the Amazon on Saturday, November 22, without a roadmap for phasing out fossil fuels as demanded by the European Union and other countries. Nearly 200 countries approved the deal by consensus after two weeks of fraught negotiations in the Brazilian city of Belem, with the notable absence of the United States as President Donald Trump shunned the... Applause rang out in the plenary session after COP30 president and Brazilian diplomat Andre Correa do Lago slammed a gavel signalling its approval.

The EU and other nations had pushed for a deal that would call for a "roadmap" to phase out fossil fuels, but the words do not appear in the text. Instead, the agreement calls on countries to "voluntarily" accelerate their climate action and recalls the consensus reached at COP28 in Dubai. That 2023 deal called for the world to transition away from fossil fuels. The EU, which had warned that the summit could end without a deal if fossil fuels were not addressed, accepted the watered-down language. "We're not going to hide the fact that we would have preferred to have more, to have more ambition on everything," EU climate commissioner Wopke Hoekstra told reporters. "We should support it because it is at least going in the right direction," said Hoekstra.

More than 30 countries, including European nations, emerging economies and small island states had signed a letter warning Brazil they would reject any deal without a plan to move away from oil, gas and... But a member of an EU delegation told Agence France-Press (AFP) that the 27-nation bloc was "isolated" and cast as the "villains" at the talks. The push to phase out oil, coal and gas – the main drivers of global warming – grew out of frustration over a lack of follow-through on the COP28 agreement to transition away from... French Environmental Transition Minister Monique Barbut had accused oil-rich Saudi Arabia and Russia, along with coal producer India and "many" other emerging countries, of refusing language on a fossil-fuel phaseout. She said Saturday the text was bland but that there was "nothing extraordinarily bad in it." The Warrick Power Plant, a coal-powered generating station, operates April 8, 2025, in Newburgh, Ind.

(AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel, File) Activists participate in a demonstration outside where negotiations are taking place at the COP30 U.N. Climate Summit, Friday, Nov. 21, 2025, in Belem, Brazil. (AP Photo/Joshua A.

Bickel) Simon Stiell, United Nations climate chief, speaks during a news conference at the COP30 U.N. Climate Summit, Saturday, Nov. 22, 2025, in Belem, Brazil. (AP Photo/Andre Penner) Trees surround the area of a quilombola, an Afro-descendant community called Menino Jesus in Acara, Brazil, Tuesday, Nov.

18, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano) André Corrêa do Lago, COP30 president, center, and Simon Stiell, United Nations climate chief, front left, speak with staff during a plenary session at the COP30 U.N. Climate Summit, Saturday, Nov. 22, 2025, in Belem, Brazil. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Forest defenders disappointed by the lack of agreement on a roadmap to tackle deforestation at COP30 say voluntary initiatives and funding promises set in motion in Belém are at least a step in the... Indigenous people and campaigners hoped the first UN climate summit held in the Amazon would define a concrete plan for saving the world’s forests. But COP30’s “Global Mutirão” decision makes only passing mention of the COP28 target adopted by all countries to halt and reverse forest loss by 2030 – a goal data shows is way off-track. A decision on cutting carbon emissions – part of the broader package of COP30 outcomes – also made short shrift of the issue, referring only to the “challenges in addressing drivers of deforestation” while... “Our expectations were far higher than what this COP in the heart of the Amazon ultimately delivered,” Fernanda Carvalho, head of policy for climate and energy at WWF, told Climate Home News. Panama’s head of delegation at the talks, Juan Carlos Monterrey, said in a social media post that “a Forest COP with no commitment on forests is a very bad joke”.

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