Overview
- Ministers from small island states, most EU members and several Latin American countries publicly backed a roadmap, with the Marshall Islands' Tina Stege and Germany's Carsten Schneider leading calls.
- The draft Global Mutirão decision’s paragraph 35 lists only a workshop, a roundtable, or no text on fossil exit, prompting NGOs to demand stronger language.
- Negotiation watchers expect any deal to launch a multi‑year process to develop the roadmap rather than set binding fossil phase‑out dates at COP30.
- Arab states and Russia have signaled resistance, China and some developing countries have not endorsed the push, and the U.S. government is absent from the talks.
- President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva returned to Belém to engage ministers, including from the EU, yet delegates report a compromise is still far off.