"We want this to be a Cop of truth, as the Cop presidency has said it should be, said Lidy Nacpil, the Filipino social justice activist who is coordinator of the Asian Peoples' Movement on Debt and Development, late on Friday. And the narrative that is the developing countries that are not ambitious is not the truth. It is part of many duplicitous narratives that are coming out of this Cop and have come out of previous Cops."
"We are the first people who have the greatest at stake, for a rapid, equitable, and just transition out of fossil fuels. But we cannot accept this circus over a roadmap that is offering us nothing. We cannot accept that this roadmap is now being held as an instrument to hold hostage all the other demands that we have that are equally urgent. So we reject a roadmap that has nothing in it, no climate finance, no clear commitment to a just transition."
Civil society campaigners from developing countries accused wealthy nations of promoting duplicitous narratives during the Cop30 talks in Belém, Brazil. European countries signalled they would walk away from any deal lacking a roadmap to phase out fossil fuels. Members of the like-minded developing countries group, including Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iran and Bolivia, rejected the proposed wording. Civil society observers argued that wealthy countries refused to provide the climate finance necessary for a fair transition, rendering the roadmap implausible. Activists rejected a roadmap that lacked finance and clear commitments to a just transition and opposed using the roadmap to block other urgent demands.
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