Overview
- A visibly united coalition led publicly by the Marshall Islands, Germany and the UK says roughly 80 countries now back a just, orderly plan to leave coal, oil and gas.
- Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva reignited the issue with a call to end fossil dependence and returned to Belém to meet EU ministers to drive progress.
- The COP30 draft “Global Mutirão” text, notably Paragraph 35, still offers only weak procedural options such as workshops, roundtables or no text.
- Opposition from Saudi Arabia, Russia and other major producers, along with concerns from China, India and Nigeria, makes a near‑term binding exit date unlikely under consensus rules.
- The United States sent no delegation, reshaping dynamics on the ground, while a separate anti‑deforestation fund remains far short of its $25 billion target with about $5.6 billion pledged.