82-Nation Coalition Backs Brazil’s COP30 Push for a Fossil-Fuel Phaseout Roadmap

Overview

• Ministers from the UK, Germany, France, Colombia, Kenya, Sierra Leone and the Marshall Islands led the call to insert a clear mandate for a roadmap into the COP30 outcome, with organizers citing support from more than 80 countries.
• The presidency’s first draft decision drew EU criticism as a “mixture,” offering conflicting options on fossil-fuel language, touching the EU carbon border measure, and floating a proposal to triple adaptation finance by 2030 or 2035.
• Brazil’s environment minister, Marina Silva, urged approval of global adaptation indicators and pressed for a financed, planned and fair transition away from fossil fuels and deforestation.
• Scientific briefings in Belém warned the Amazon is trending from carbon sink to source, highlighting 1.4 million hectares of flooded forests burned in 2023/24 and an estimated 108.9 million tonnes of CO2 emitted from these forests in 2024.
• Territorial groups cautioned that a state-led roadmap risks excluding Indigenous and local community voices, as negotiators worked late with another draft expected on Wednesday.