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COP30 Ends With No Fossil-Fuel Roadmap as Brazil Shifts to Voluntary Plans

The presidency will issue non-binding roadmaps, leaving funding and timelines unsettled.

COP30 President Andre Correa do Lago (C) gestures next to his advisers after the plenary session was interrupted following Colombia's intervention at the COP30 UN Climate Change Conference in Belem, Para state, Brazil, on November 22, 2025. A proposed final deal for the UN climate talks omits any direct mention of phasing out fossil fuels, as demanded by the EU and many countries, according to the text published Saturday after two weeks of fraught negotiations. The draft, which must be approved by consensus by nearly 200 nations, calls on developed countries to "at least triple" financing to help poorer nations adapt to the impacts of climate change. (Photo by Pablo PORCIUNCULA / AFP)
Trees surround the area of a quilombola, an Afro-descendant community called Menino Jesus in Acara, Brazil, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
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Activists participate in a demonstration outside where negotiations are taking place at the COP30 U.N. Climate Summit, Friday, Nov. 21, 2025, in Belem, Brazil. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

Overview

  • Countries adopted the Global Mutirão decision without any reference to fossil fuels after oil-producing states blocked a UN-agreed phaseout roadmap under consensus rules.
  • Brazil’s COP30 presidency will draft external roadmaps on fossil-fuel transition and deforestation and launched a voluntary Global Implementation Accelerator to support willing nations.
  • The outcome calls for scaling climate finance to at least $1.3 trillion per year by 2035, tripling adaptation finance by 2035, and creating a just transition mechanism, yet amounts, baselines and delivery plans remain unclear.
  • Brazil’s Tropical Forests Forever Facility drew pledges in the single-digit billions, far below the $25 billion goal, and a UN deforestation roadmap did not make it into the final text.
  • This was the first COP without a U.S. government delegation and UN officials, scientists and NGOs criticized the weakened results despite the process holding together.