Brazil Draft COP30 Climate Deal Omits Plan to Exit Fossil Fuels

Brazil presented the COP30 climate summit with a deal in the early hours of Friday that omitted any reference to exiting fossil fuels amid stiff resistance from producing countries.

The seven-page draft deal issued by the Brazilian COP30 Presidency called on countries to accelerate climate action, including via a voluntary “Global Implementation Accelerator.” But it failed to deliver a road map to transition away from oil, natural gas and coal, a key ask of around 80 countries at the summit taking place in the Amazonian city of Belém.

Dubbed the “Global Mutirão,” after the Brazilian term for joint effort, the ...