At COP30, 80-Nation Bloc Backs Fossil-Fuel Phaseout Roadmap as Talks Hinge on Weak Draft Text

Overview

• Ministers from roughly 80–82 countries publicly endorsed launching a COP-mandated roadmap to move away from coal, oil and gas, with Germany, the UK, Kenya, Sierra Leone and the Marshall Islands among those on stage.
• The proposal is not yet in the formal negotiating track and appears only as optional, weak wording in the presidency’s “Mutirão” draft, which Tina Stege of the Marshall Islands urged be strengthened.
• Brazil’s environment minister Marina Silva called for COP30 to approve global adaptation indicators and boost finance for vulnerable countries as negotiators worked late into the night.
• Colombia announced a ban on industrial oil and mining in its Amazon region and led a ministerial push for each country to outline a national plan to phase out fossil fuels.
• Scientists in Belém presented evidence that parts of the Amazon are shifting from a carbon sink to a source, citing record floodplain forest fires during the 2023/24 drought and long-term warming and deforestation pressures.