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Cop30 Summit Ends Without A Roadmap For Phasing Out Fossil Fuels

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cop30 summit ends without a roadmap for phasing out fossil fuels

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... André Corrêa do Lago, center, the president of the COP30 climate conference in Brazil, sat as negotiators huddled in last-minute deliberations on Saturday. Andre Penner/AP hide caption BELÉM, Brazil — This year's United Nations global climate conference in Brazil ended on Saturday with a formal agreement that failed to address phasing out fossil fuels — the main driver of global warming. The United States was conspicuously absent from this year's talks, known as COP30, after the Trump administration refused to send a delegation to Belém, Brazil.

In the end, the conference delivered only modest progress on international efforts to curb global warming and pay for the costs of adapting to a hotter planet. Earlier in the week, more than 80 countries had demanded negotiators agree to a "roadmap" to transition the global economy away from fossil fuels. The group included many developing nations hit hard by climate change, along with the United Kingdom, Germany, and oil producers like Mexico and Brazil. 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 Cop30 climate conference in Brazil ended on Saturday without an agreement for the world to commit to phasing out fossil fuels.

More than 80 nations had been pushing for the gathering in the northern city of Belem to strengthen efforts to move away from fossil fuels, but some oil-producing nations were said to have been... Speaking to the media after the final plenary session was concluded, the Cop30 president, Andre Correa do Lago, acknowledged that “some of you had higher ambitions” for the final agreement. CommentThe key to tackling climate change is not what we think The agreement instead calls on nations to undertake measures to limit carbon emissions while “taking into account” decisions such as the UAE Consensus, the historic agreement at Cop28 in Dubai that was the first... The UN climate summit has agreed on a deal that does not include a roadmap for the phaseout of fossil fuels. DW has more.

Nearly 200 nations have agreed on a deal after the 30th annual UN climate conference was extended. The European Union had said it would not stand in the way, but denounced the lack of ambition in the draft agreement, which omits any direct mention of phasing out fossil fuels. The summit was extended into Saturday after delegates had failed to seal a deal, with fossil fuels one of the main sticking points. Follow along for the latest news, background and analysis from the COP30 climate conference in Brazil: The world struck a new climate deal at the COP30 summit in Brazil Saturday, which calls for a tripling of funding to help countries adapt to increasingly severe climate impacts. But countries failed to agree to a roadmap away from fossil fuels, after entrenched divisions threatened to collapse the talks.

The agreement came after more than two weeks of increasingly fraught negotiations between representatives of more than 190 countries in the port city of Belém, known as the gateway to the Amazon. Disagreements reached such fever pitch there were fears the summit would collapse with no deal. Talks stretched overtime as dozens of nations pushed back against an outcome that didn’t explicitly mention a transition away from oil, coal and gas — the drivers of the climate crisis. But just after midday local time Saturday, the COP30 president André Corrêa do Lago gaveled through a deal. The final text contained no mention of fossil fuels, signaling a retreat from consensus agreements only two years old. It included only a general agreement on deforestation, rather than more explicit commitments, which had been another key issue in the negotiations.

More than 80 countries, including Colombia, the UK and France, supported the concept of a “roadmap” to transition away from fossil fuels, building on a commitment made at COP28 in Dubai in 2023. However, intense opposition from petrostates — including Saudi Arabia and Russia — and other heavy fossil fuels users prevented consensus. The halls of COP30 are empty, and as the final gavel fell, there was a sense that something essential had slipped away. What began with remarkable promise under Brazil’s presidency concluded instead with "disappointment, and, for many, the unsettling feeling of having watched the multilateral climate process take a step backwards". “It’s been my fifteenth COP,” says Professor John Sweeney, emeritus climatologist from Maynooth University in Ireland, “and this one followed very predictable lines.” But this year’s conclusion, he stresses, is marked less by the... Sweeney explains that Brazil had laid significant groundwork ahead of the summit.

Hosting the conference in the Amazon carried a symbolism and urgency that the world could not ignore. The presidency hoped to produce clear commitments on forest protection, fossil fuel phase-out, and finance for vulnerable nations. Yet, as negotiations stretched deep into the night and into the weekend, the final text emerged stripped of its strongest language. “The big winner,” Sweeney says in an interview with Vatican News “, is sitting in Washington.” A meeting between the United States and Saudi Arabia, days before the final plenary, appeared to seal the... For the vast majority of nations pressing for decisive language on the root causes of climate change, it was a bitter defeat. For the first time in 30 years of UN COPs, the White House had no official representation at the event in Belém.

A decision that had a negative impact on the outcome of the Conference.

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