Overview
- Major fossil-fuel producers, including Saudi Arabia and Russia, blocked efforts to include a roadmap to exit coal, oil and gas.
- The final declaration launches a voluntary Global Implementation Accelerator to encourage faster action ahead of the next summit.
- Industrialised countries pledged to triple finance for adaptation and climate-friendly technologies for poorer nations.
- Colombia’s delegate Daniela Durán protested during the adoption over ignored science, triggering a one-hour suspension before the text was approved.
- UN human-rights chief Volker Türk warned inaction could be judged ecocide or even a crime against humanity, while climate chief Simon Stiell framed the result as the start of an implementation era.