No Agreement Reached On New Pledges To Cut Fossil Fuels At Cop30 In

Leo Migdal

-Dec 3, 2025, 12:09 PM

no agreement reached on new pledges to cut fossil fuels at cop30 in

Georgina RannardClimate and science correspondent in Belém Exhausted delegates are trickling out to catch planes home and another tropical storm is battering the roof. The man sitting next to me gave me a parting gift - a chocolate bar reading “last chance for our rainforests”. Here are the key takeaways from the closing day of the summit: Personally, I’ve found it fascinating going to a climate meeting in the Amazon. The astonishing ecosystem is at terrible risk from ongoing climate change but it is also the source of many solutions - which have been on display during this two-week meeting.

I will take away from this COP that despite the difficulties in getting everyone to agree on how to tackle climate change, real-world solutions are being implemented at speed almost everywhere. 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. 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.

The agreement does not include a roadmap to phase out fossil fuels worldwide. It took an extra day, but delegates at COP30, the United Nations' climate conference, have reached a deal on a final agreement. The agreement, however, falls far short of the high expectations many delegates, environmental groups and non-governmental organizations had going into the annual conference in Belém, Brazil. Despite more than 80 countries calling for a roadmap to phase out fossil fuels worldwide, the primary cause of human-amplified climate change, that demand did not make it into the final text. Although the conference took place in what's called the "gateway to the Amazon," the COP30 agreement also doesn't include any significant new initiatives to stop deforestation and protect the Amazon rainforest, known as "the... Two weeks of climate negotiations in the Brazilian city of Belem have closed with an agreement that calls for renewed commitments to tackle rising temperatures, yet omits any mention of fossil fuels.

A fortnight of marathon talks marked by Indigenous protests, the notable absence of the US — the world's second largest polluter — and a fire that forced a mass evacuation of the venue, have... A main point of contention has been a road map to transition away from fossil fuels, the burning of which produces most of the emissions heating the planet and turbocharges extreme weather. More than 80 countries — including Colombia, Germany and Kenya — had said a final deal would hinge on a concrete action plan to follow through on a previous hard-won pledge to shift beyond... But the idea, which faced significant pushback from China, the Arab Group of nations, including petro-states such as Saudi Arabia, and others, did not make it into the final document. 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...

Despite the wishes of most of the countries there - the final wording of the deal struck at the COP30 summit made no calls for the phasing out of fossil fuels, ITV News' Philip... Negotiators taking part in United Nations climate talks in Brazil have agreed to deliver more money to countries hit the hardest by climate change. Saturday's outcome was not as fruitful as many hoped, however, as the agreement reached at the COP30 summit did not include explicit details on phasing out fossil fuels – despite the demands of many... Nor did it include measures to strengthen countries' inadequate emissions cutting plans. Earlier, COP30 President André Corrêa warned that "everybody will lose" if the officials from more than 190 countries taking part did not find enough common ground to build on the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement.The... COP30 final agreement omits fossil fuels

Countries also left deforestation on the sidelines but agreed to more funding for climate adaptation efforts by low-income countries The latest chemistry news, including important research advances, business and policy trends, chemical safety practices, career guidance, and more. Belém, Brazil—The agreement that emerged on Saturday from this year’s Conference of the Parties (COP30) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) summit in Brazil included more money for low-income countries’... But the final text lacked any explicit mention of the fossil fuels that the global economy is meant to be transitioning away from. In addition, while the summit was branded the “rainforest COP,” the agreement lacked a concrete plan to end deforestation. Instead, Brazil, Colombia, and others are now organizing voluntary initiatives, outside the official UN process, for those looking to end both deforestation and the use of fossil fuels.

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