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COP30 Closes With No Fossil-Fuel Phaseout or Roadmap in Final Deal

Brazil’s presidency pursued a compromise following producer-state opposition, pivoting to a chair-led effort instead.

Overview

  • Delegates adopted a final outcome that omits explicit fossil-fuel phaseout language and drops Brazil’s proposed roadmap.
  • The text urges efforts to triple adaptation finance for developing countries by 2035 and stresses halting and reversing global forest loss by 2030.
  • Talks ran past the scheduled November 21 end date as EU members and island states pressed to keep phaseout language opposed by Saudi Arabia and other producers.
  • Brazil will convene a chair-led initiative outside the formal COP process and present its work to COP31 in Turkey in 2026, according to the presidency’s plan.
  • The meeting took place without a U.S. government delegation at President Trump’s direction, and roughly 70 parties, including India, had yet to file updated emissions targets by the UN deadline.