US Edition30-Plus Nations Oppose Cop30 Draft over Fossil Fuel Omission: Colombia
Over 30 nations oppose Brazil's COP30 draft for excluding a fossil fuel phase-out roadmap despite calls to triple adaptation finance by 2030, the Colombian delegation said.
- On Nov 21, Brazil's COP30 presidency in Belém released a draft dropping a proposed global plan to shift away from fossil fuels championed by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
- The Colombian delegation told AFP that more than 30 countries co-signed a letter opposing the draft because it omits a fossil fuel phase-out roadmap, with France and Belgium among signatories.
- Brazil's COP30 presidency held consultations on Nov 20 after a fire disrupted talks, while Brazilian diplomat Andre Correa do Lago faces pressure from nearly 200 countries gathered since last week.
- On finance, the proposal urges a tripling of adaptation finance by 2030 but does not clarify if wealthy governments, development banks, or the private sector will provide funding, disappointing poorer nations.
- China, India, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria and Russia reportedly rejected the roadmap outright, while the draft would launch a trade dialogue involving the World Trade Organization, welcomed by China but uneasy for the European Union.
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Climate Summit Proposal Omits Plan for Exiting Fossil Fuels
(Bloomberg) — Brazil presented the COP30 climate summit with a draft deal early Friday that omits any reference to exiting fossil fuels amid stiff resistance from producing countries, setting the stage for frantic final round of negotiations.
Supporters of the plan, including Slovenia, wrote in a letter to the Cop30 presidency that they could not support an outcome that did not include a plan for fossil fuels.
Early this morning, the Brazilian presidency released a new proposal for a decision text at COP30, but without mentioning the most controversial issue: phasing out fossil fuels. – A large number of countries are threatening to block the agreement if the text is not included, says SVT's Julia Lindvall in Morgonstudion.
This Thursday's day was intended to define the key points on climate adaptation and to discuss methods and technologies to reduce the use of fossil fuels.
The draft version presented by the presidency abandons Brazil’s main objective of making a road map to abandon the intensive use of oil, gas and coal “Do not impose anything on anyone”: neither Lula’s charm accelerates the COP30 climate negotiations. Suddenly, they have become volatile. The latest draft agreement for COP30 has wiped out any mention of fossil fuels, the essential cause of CO2 emissions that are behind the climate crisis.
After a steep final straight of the climate summit of the Brazilian city of Belém, marked by a fire unleashed inside the COP30 facilities that kept the talks paralysed for about seven hours, the presidency has published a draft in the morning of this Friday. And the main topic on which the focus had been placed in this quote does not appear. There is no mention of the impulse to a road map to leave fossil fuels behind. Continue reading
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