Overview
- Negotiators ended the Belém talks without a consensus plan to phase out coal, oil and gas despite backing from Brazil and more than 80 countries.
- The COP30 presidency will produce two voluntary roadmaps and co-host the Santa Marta meeting with Colombia and the Netherlands to advance a fossil-fuel phaseout agenda.
- UN officials emphasized an implementation push that includes 117 action-agenda items, a new global implementation accelerator, a drive to raise $1 trillion for power grids, and $5.5 billion pledged for forest protection.
- Policy analysts stressed that binding rules are needed to turn pledges into cuts, highlighting the EU Methane Regulation with import standards as a concrete enforcement model.
- Observers blamed consensus rules and petrostate resistance for diluted text, with momentum also hurt by the absence of a U.S. federal delegation.