Takeaways from the outcome of UN climate talks in Brazil

By Melina Walling, Anton Delgado and Seth Borenstein
The Associated Press
November 22, 2025
Category: Carbon, Climate & Bioenergy
Region: Canada, International

BELEM, Brazil — After two weeks of negotiations, this year’s UN climate talks ended Saturday with a compromise that some criticized as weak and others called progress. The deal finalized at the COP30 conference pledges more money to help countries adapt to climate change, but lacks explicit plans to transition away from the fossil fuels that heat the planet. …Leaders have been working on how to fight the impacts of climate change for a decade. To do that, every country had the homework of writing up their own national climate plans and then reconvened this month to see if it was enough. Most didn’t get a good grade and some haven’t even turned it in. …More than 80 countries tried to introduce a detailed guide to phase out fossil fuels. There were other to-do items on topics including deforestation, gender and farming. …”We started with a bang, but we ended with a whimper of disappointment,” said one negotiator.

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