COP30 pushes through uneasy climate deal that sidesteps fossil fuel concerns

Reuters in CBC News
November 22, 2025
Category: Carbon, Climate & Bioenergy
Region: International

Brazil’s COP30 presidency pushed through a compromise climate deal on Saturday that would boost finances for poor nations coping with global warming but omitted any mention of the fossil fuels driving it. In securing the accord, Brazil had attempted to demonstrate global unity in addressing climate change impacts even after the world’s biggest historic emitter, the United States, declined to send an official delegation. But the agreement, which landed in overtime after two weeks of contentious negotiations in the Amazon city of Belém, exposed deep rifts over how future climate action should be pursued. …After tense overnight negotiations, the EU agreed on Saturday morning not to block a final deal but said it did not agree with the conclusion. …Panama’s climate negotiator, Juan Carlos Monterrey Gómez, said “A climate decision that cannot even say ‘fossil fuels’ is not neutrality, it is complicity. And what is happening here transcends incompetence,” he said.

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