Overview
- The final COP30 text excludes any explicit reference to fossil fuels or a phase-out roadmap after a coordinated bloc led by Arab petrostates opposed such language.
- The agreed Mutirão package calls for tripling adaptation finance and upholds guidance toward $300 billion a year, and it adopts work on adaptation indicators, just transition, carbon markets, technology, and gender.
- European officials and several countries, including Colombia and Panama, condemned the outcome as insufficient, while NGOs decried opaque negotiations and a lack of ambition aligned with science.
- COP30 president André Corrêa do Lago said the presidency will publish separate, science-based roadmaps on transitioning away from fossil fuels and reversing deforestation, which would not carry the same formal status unless later adopted by parties.
- Negotiators cited deep geopolitical rifts and a thin U.S. presence as factors limiting ambition, with follow-on work expected at a Colombia-led gathering, UNFCCC intersessionals in Bonn, and COP31 in Turkey.