"After two weeks of intense negotiations on the edge of the Amazon rainforest, the UN published a new draft text on Friday morning detailing plans for tackling the climate crisis. The latest text omits the mention of a road map to move away from burning the fossil fuels that are driving the changes in Earth's climate and leading to increased drought, flooding, storms and deadly heat. Though this transition beyond oil, coal and gas was referenced in an earlier draft document this week, the newest version instead includes proposals for increasing finance for adaptation, trade, and accelerating emissions cuts in national climate plans."
"Yet it is the topic of accelerating the world's move away from fossil fuels that has sparked heated negotiations over the last week. Deep divisions have emerged between countries in support of a roadmap, and a significant bloc, including petrostates such as Saudia Arabia and Iran, in stiff opposition. "We are disappointed with the text currently on the table," said Wopke Hoekstra, the European Union's climate commissioner, in a statement to AFP."
COP30 in Brazil produced a new UN draft that removed a previously referenced roadmap to phase out fossil fuels. The revised text instead emphasizes increased finance for adaptation, trade measures, and faster emissions reductions in national climate plans. Strong disagreements emerged between countries backing a fossil-fuel transition roadmap and a bloc opposing it, including petrostates such as Saudia Arabia and Iran. Hosts Brazil pushed for an early deal amid Indigenous protests and the US absence. Negotiations were further disrupted by a fire at the COP30 venue, complicating efforts to reach agreement on finance and trade.
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