Lula Returns to COP30 as 80+ Nations Press a Fossil‑Fuel Phaseout Roadmap

Overview

• Ministers from Europe, Latin America, Africa and small island states rallied behind a call led by the Marshall Islands and Colombia for a COP‑mandated roadmap to wind down coal, oil and gas, with organizers citing support from more than 80 countries.
• Brazil’s presidency circulated a draft outcome that proposes clear trajectories to cut fossil‑fuel production and use, including progressive coal elimination and substantial reductions in oil and gas, though key passages remain bracketed.
• Negotiations are unresolved as President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva returns to Belém to personally press for consensus on a political package dubbed the global “mutirão,” ahead of the planned Friday close.
• Developing countries are tying acceptance of global adaptation indicators to predictable finance, with options on the table to strengthen the Loss and Damage fund and to at least triple adaptation funding targets.
• Scientists warned that parts of the Amazon are shifting from carbon sink to source, reporting 1.4 million hectares of flooded forests burned in the 2023/24 drought and 108.9 million tonnes of CO2 emitted from these forests in 2024.