US EditionDraft COP30 Deal Drops Effort for Fossil Fuel Transition Agreement
Opposition from major oil-producing countries led to the removal of fossil fuel phaseout language, replacing it with a flexible 'roadmap to a roadmap' approach lacking enforcement measures.
- The COP30 Presidency released a new outcome draft that drops explicit fossil-fuel language, replacing phaseout options with a 'roadmap to a roadmap' after pushback from oil-producing nations including Saudi Arabia.
- Earlier this week, ministers from more than 20 countries urged an explicit phaseout roadmap, backed by more than 80 countries including the UK and Germany, while the draft notes constraints faced by developing countries.
- Three possible routes were in an earlier draft, but later text removed explicit phaseout options; a fire at a COP30 venue delayed meetings, likely pushing the summit past its 6 pm end.
- Dozens of countries have already signed a letter calling the omission unacceptable, while the Belém Declaration, endorsed by 24 countries, will be presented in April next year in Santa Marta, Colombia.
- Experts warn the weakened draft may do little to keep warming to 1.5°C as resource-dependent economies risk stranded assets while renewables and private-sector investors outpace fossil fuels two-to-one.
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After almost a day of overtime for the COP30 meeting, an agreement has now been hammered out. The EU lost the battle over a plan to phase out fossil fuels after strong opposition from the countries that produce oil and coal. – We needed another increase in ambition this year and we didn't get that, says Climate Minister Romina Pourmokhtari (L) to SVT.
Negotiations did not stop between Friday and Saturday. Some delegates and journalists came to sleep in the corridors of the Blue Zone, as the night talks passed to reach consensus on the final declaration. A day earlier, a fire had further delayed and strained the divisions between countries, especially around the road map to phase out fossil fuels, which aroused harsh criticism from civil society and the scientific community.
COP30 was scheduled to finish Friday night, after two weeks of work, but delegations again played the extensions.
The "road map" disappears on fossils, blocked by oil producing countries, but the reference to transition away remains. The text has the green light of the big blocks and now awaits the approval of the plenary
COP30 deal under threat
Negotiators scrambled Friday to salvage UN climate talks in Brazil as oil-producing nations were accused of resisting any reference to a fossil fuel phaseout in the final deal. After nearly two weeks of negotiations in the Amazonian city of Belem, a new draft agreement unveiled by COP30 host Brazil made no mention of “fossil fuels” or the word “roadmap” that President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva had himself publicly supported. European Union clima…
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