We say \u201cso-called\u201d because there is still no final agreement. It looks like we\u2019re heading for at least one extra day of talks.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s a quick recap on what happened today.<\/p>\n
Countries appear to be still far apart<\/a> on any agreement to draw up a roadmap to transition away from fossil fuels. As the clock approached 11pm in Belem, talks were ongoing.<\/p>\n Negotiating texts released early on Friday in Belem did not include the roadmap concept.<\/p>\n The UK energy secretary Ed Miliband said a deal to create a roadmap away from fossil fuels needed to happen \u201cone way or another\u201d<\/a> \u2013 even if it was a voluntary process.<\/p>\n One representative from a country vulnerable to the climate crisis said: \u201cSometimes it\u2019s like we are arguing with robots<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n Observers claimed the Arab group of nations had warned any mention of phasing out fossil fuels in final negotiations would see the talks collapse<\/a>.<\/p>\n The architect of the Paris climate deal, Laurence Tubiana, said countries should not fear pursuing a deal on a roadmap.<\/p>\n Turkey and Australia has agreed to the details on hosting next year\u2019s Cop31 summit, that will be held in Turkey. Turkey will take on the Cop31 presidency and an Australian \u2013 energy minister Chris Bowen \u2013 will be appointed vice-president and \u201cpresident of negotiations\u201d<\/p>\n Africa was still pushing for a tripling of the finance available from rich countries to help the poor world adapt to the impacts of the climate crisis.<\/p>\n Thanks a lot for staying with us. The climate summit in Belem is on a knife edge.<\/p>\n Join us again tomorrow, Belem time, as we follow what could be the actual final day.<\/p>\n In the meantime, you can follow all our coverage from Cop30 here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a020.53 EST<\/p>\n Paris deal architect says don\u2019t fear fossil fuel exit roadmap<\/p>\n Countries should not fear drawing up a roadmap to phase out fossil fuels, one of the architects of the Paris agreement has declared, because they will be able to set their own path, according to their own national circumstances.<\/p>\n Laurence Tubiana, chief executive of the European Climate Foundation, who has served as one of the special envoys appointed by Brazil for Cop30<\/a>, told the Guardian that all of the important decisions would be for national governments to make, and they would not be coerced into any measures. She told the Guardian:<\/p>\n We want more renewable energy and less fossil fuel, but every country has to imagine for itself what policies they want, what role they have to play, and what ambition they have.<\/p>\n Countries demanding more finance from developed countries to help them adapt to the impacts of the climate crisis \u2013 a major concern for developing nations, particularly the poorest and most vulnerable, at the Cop30 talks \u2013 should be particularly in favour of a phase out, because the sooner the world shifts away from fossil fuels, the less adaptation they will require, she added.<\/p>\n It is just impossible to try to say, we want adaptation finance, but we don\u2019t want a transition away from fossil fuels. Clearly, if you want adaptation, you should support the phase out.<\/p>\n She warned countries must also be prepared to rethink their national climate plans, known as nationally determined contributions (NDCs), given that the current crop are inadequate to limit global temperatures to 1.5C, the goal set out in the Paris agreement.<\/p>\n Some countries at the Cop30 talks, now in their final stages, have argued that discussions of the NDCs should be put off for three years, as technically the Paris agreement does not require them to be reviewed until then. Tubiana dismissed this argument. She asked:<\/p>\n What is the point of meeting for a Cop if you do not want to think about NDCs?<\/p>\n What is the point of the Paris agreement if you don\u2019t address this? They are being irrational.<\/p>\n It was easier than ever for countries to make the shift to a low-carbon economy, she added, as in the decade since the Paris agreement was signed, the costs of renewable energy and clean technology had plummeted.<\/p>\n \u201cWhy invest in oil and gas now?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n It\u2019s now the witching-hour outside the Cop30<\/a> negotiating rooms<\/p>\n It\u2019s passed 10pm in Belem on what should be the final day of negotiations. But it probably won\u2019t be.<\/p>\n Negotiators are locked away in rooms pouring over texts.<\/p>\n Outside, it can be difficult to know what to do. Except wait, sleep, rush for a flight, go back to your bed or something else.<\/p>\n Our correspondents have been trying to capture this witching-hour vibe. They will be familiar scenes to anyone who has been to a Cop.<\/p>\n Delegates at Cop30 climate conference wait for news late on the final scheduled day. Photograph: Damian Carrington\/The GuardianA man sleeps on a sofa in the Cop30 conference centre in Bel\u00e9m, Brazil, as attendees at the UN climate talks wait for a new draft text, on Friday 21 November 2025. Photograph: Damien Gayle\/The GuardianUN climate summit attendees drag their bags around in the Cop30 conference centre in Bel\u00e9m, Brazil, as they wait for a new draft text, on Friday 21 November 2025. Photograph: Damien Gayle\/The Guardian<\/p>\n A game of football has also broken out. It is Brazil, after all (and yes, there is a football in this picture if you look closely).<\/p>\n Delegates have a game of football at Cop30 climate talks in Belem. Photograph: Fiona Harvey\/The GuardianShare<\/a> Will Cop30<\/a> be able to close the gap to 1.5C or be \u201cdeadliest talk show ever\u201d?<\/p>\n Also at stake at Cop30 is the question of how countries respond to the fact that current national climate plans, known as nationally determined contributions, would lead to about 2.5C of heating above preindustrial levels, far above the 1.5C limit target set by the Paris agreement.<\/p>\n One delegate from the Alliance of Small Island States said issue was critical to vulnerable countries, but the draft text contained only options to continue talking about the large gap between countries\u2019 targets and the carbon cuts necessary to stay within 1.5C<\/a> or as close to it as is now possible.<\/p>\n Harjeet Singh, from the Satat Sampada Climate Foundation, warned if there was not progress in the final hours, the meeting would \u201cgo down as the deadliest talk show ever produced\u201d. He said:<\/p>\n Negotiators spend days discussing what to discuss and inventing new dialogues solely to avoid the actions that matter: committing to a just transition away from fossil fuels and putting money on the table.<\/p>\n Share<\/a> How do you stop 50,000 climate conference delegates from overheating? Ask Olmo.<\/p>\n A chill is passing through the Cop30<\/a> negotiating halls as night falls on the scheduled final day of the climate conference in Bel\u00e9m.<\/p>\n It is neither a shiver of dread that the Paris Agreement may be breaking down, nor, sadly, a frisson of excitement that an important breakthrough might be imminent.<\/p>\n No, this cold sensation – felt by many shivering participants – derives from the venue\u2019s vast air conditioning system, which has struggled for the past three weeks with the challenge of providing a tolerable temperature for the 50,000 attendees.<\/p>\n Climate conferences are often accused of being full of hot air, but that\u2019s rarely been as literally true as at Cop30 where engineers have had to deal with equatorial heat outside the tent and the fluctuating energy generated inside by the throngs of people passing through the halls.<\/p>\n The target temperature is 24C, according to the host country agreement that Brazil signed with the United Nations, but it has sometimes proven hard to hit, particularly in the pavilion era, where barriers block the flow of air in one of the most crowded parts of the venue.<\/p>\n Tim Lenton, a planetary scientist who was visiting Bel\u00e9m to warn negotiators of dangerous tipping points in the climate system, kindly offered a back of the envelope calculation about the challenge. He said:<\/p>\n \u201cA sitting human has 100 Watts power output. A running human would be around 300 Watts or more. Walking, around 200 Watts.”<\/p>\n With tens of thousands of delegates in the centre at any one time, that can add megawatts of energy, much of it in the form of heat.<\/p>\n Then there is the tropical sun, which can heat the most exposed parts of the tent to 50C at the hottest part of the day.<\/p>\n Countering this, the organisers have deployed 200 giant air conditioning units – the relentless drone of which has provided the dystopian soundtrack to this conference, sometimes making it difficult to hear what people are saying.<\/p>\n Even so, the system can sometimes struggle. Staff at the help desk say roughly four in ten of the complaints they hear every day are about the heat.<\/p>\n Then there is the cold.<\/p>\n When sensible people leave at the end of the day – like now – their radiant heat goes with them, leaving the giant venue so excessively cooled that many people have to put on extra layers or coats.<\/p>\n The head of Brazilian organising committee\u2019s Olmo Xavier, told The Guardian there is no giant thermostat that can regulate the entire 160,000 square meters of Blue Zone – which is bigger than any conference centre in Brazil – so it requires constant adjustment and daily consultations with the United Nations to get as close to the 24C target in as wide an area as possible. <\/p>\n \u201cWe have succeeded in the vast majority of this challenge,\u201d he said, though acknowledges \u201cthere were some points where we had more difficulty.\u201d<\/p>\n Temperatures, he said had ranged from a high of 28.2 degrees, down to 17.3 degrees.<\/p>\n Then there are the thunderstorms that have shaken the conference centre most afternoons, and brought torrents of rain, some of which has leaked through the roof.<\/p>\n The Yanomami Shaman Davi Kopenawa Yanomami said he called these deluges onto the venue to remind people inside this artificial negotiating bubble of the power of nature.<\/p>\n That lesson should be well heeded.<\/p>\n Humanity\u2019s struggle to comfortably control the temperature in this space-ship-like COP structure throws into relief how much harder it is for us to manage the warmth on the 3 billion times bigger surface of the Earth.<\/p>\n Nature, of course, had been doing that very effectively for eons.<\/p>\n Olmo Xavier, head of Brazil’s Cop30 organising committee Photograph: Jonathan Watts\/The GuardianShare<\/a> Turkey and Australia agree details for Cop31 talks<\/p>\n Pulling up from the deep divisions at Cop30 for a moment: Turkey and Australia have reached a deal<\/a> in the protracted fight over hosting arrangements for Cop31. They are unusual, to say the least.<\/p>\n As previously reported<\/a>, Turkey will host the event in the Mediterranean resort city of Antalya after Australia effectively dropped its bid to co-host with Pacific island nations.<\/p>\n Australia conceded despite having overwhelming support in the Western Europe and Others Group of countries, known as Weog, that had responsibility for deciding next year\u2019s host.<\/p>\n Under UN rules, the decision needed to be made by consensus, Turkey refused to withdraw and some senior members of the Australian government had grown cold on bringing the conference to the South Australian capital of Adelaide.<\/p>\n Turkey will take on the Cop31 presidency and an Australian will be appointed vice-president of the Cop and \u201cpresident of negotiations\u201d.<\/p>\n According to the agreement, the Australian in that role – already flagged to be the country\u2019s climate change and energy minister, Chris Bowen – will have \u201cexclusive authority in relation to the negotiations\u201d .<\/p>\n It says if there is a difference of views between the two countries \u201cconsultations will take place until the difference is resolved to mutual satisfaction\u201d.<\/p>\n Turkey will have responsibility for all operational and logistical responsibilities, be responsible for the action agenda and appoint a high-level climate champion. It will appoint a youth champion proposed by Australia.<\/p>\n Australia will take responsibility from the end of Cop30<\/a> for convening negotiations and meetings through the year, selecting ministerial and other co-facilitators, producing draft texts at Cop31 and being the focal point for engagement with the UNFCCC on the negotiations.<\/p>\n It will also preside over a Pre-Cop31 meeting in a yet-to-be-decided Pacific island country. The agreement says this \u201cwill be an opportunity for a number of leaders and others to see Pacific climate impacts and responses first hand, hear voices and solutions from the region, and support Pacific-led initiatives\u201d.<\/p>\n The arrangement has been backed by Weog nations but still needs to be formally signed off in the plenary.<\/p>\n Chris Bowen, minister for climate change and energy of Australia, speaks at the COP30 climate summit in Belem. Photograph: Fernando Llano\/APShare<\/a> Call for fossil fuel exit roadmap remains divisive at Cop30<\/p>\n More than 80 countries – developed and developing \u2013 have backed the call for a roadmap to \u201ctransition away from fossil fuels\u201d in Belem, but scores of countries are against it.<\/p>\n The Arab Group, of which Saudi Arabia is the most prominent member, has led the opposition, but Russia, Bolivia, some African countries and some countries that are heavy consumers of fossil fuels have also rejected the wording.<\/p>\n The EU was also urging countries behind the scenes to come out publicly in favour of the transition away from fossil fuels.<\/p>\n Climate commissioner Wopke Hoekstra earlier on Friday called the text without the commitment \u201cunacceptable\u201d. He said<\/p>\n \u201cGiven that we\u2019re so far away from where we should be, it\u2019s unfortunate to say, but we\u2019re really facing a no-deal situation.\u201d<\/p>\n A few developing countries with fossil fuel interests, including Nigeria and Sierra Leone, have backed a potential roadmap.<\/p>\n But some developing countries have been angered by the insistence on a fossil fuel phase-out.<\/p>\n Richard Muyung, envoy to the president of Tanzania, and current chair of the African Group of Nations, accused rich countries including the EU of holding the poor to ransom on the issue.<\/p>\n He claimed they were opposing Africa\u2019s call for a tripling of the finance available to poor countries to help them adapt to the impacts of the climate crisis, to about $120bn a year, because some African countries would not back the fossil fuel roadmap. He said:<\/p>\n The phase-out of fossil fuels is not an African issue. We emit only 4% of total global emissions, and we have never discussed a phase-out. We have been discussing a phase down.<\/p>\n Why are we being held to ransom? It\u2019s like you are trading our lives with something we never caused. So they were saying, \u2018If you do not accept phase out, we cannot give you the triple of adaptation.\u2019 We said, \u2018We cannot accept that.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n We already compromised a lot. But we cannot compromise on the tripling of adaptation finance.<\/p>\n Juan Carlos Monterrey, Panama\u2019s special representative for climate change, had a different view.<\/p>\n What we have also seen is the EU are willing to engage constructively on adaptation finance. I have had direct conversations with them and the UK. But I also understand that we need more ambition [on cutting fossil fuel emissions] in the text for them to open up the chequebook a little bit more. The two go together.<\/p>\n The Guardian understands from various countries\u2019 delegates that China is not among the countries blocking a fossil fuel phase-out roadmap, while India has taken a harder line by insisting developed countries bear responsibility for past greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>UK energy secretary says \u201cone way or another\u201d Cop30 summit will have fossil fuel transition roadmap Supporters of a global phase-out of fossil fuels<\/a> must find \u201ccreative\u201d ways to keep the proposal alive, including making it voluntary rather than binding, the UK energy secretary Ed Miliband has said during the closing stages of the UN climate talks.<\/p>\n As the Cop30<\/a> summit in Brazil carried on past the Friday night deadline, the prospect of countries agreeing on the need for a roadmap to a global \u201ctransition away from fossil fuels\u201d looked increasingly dim. <\/p>\n A first draft of the potential outcome text from the summit had contained the formulation, but the updated draft text produced on Friday by the Brazilian presidency excised the pledge.<\/p>\n Miliband told the Guardian that \u201cone way or another\u201d there would be an outcome from the two-week summit that contained the pledge, but that it might be in an altered form, or could be a voluntary initiative rather than a binding commitment. He said:<\/p>\n We are fighting for the roadmap for the transition away from fossil fuels, and we\u2019ve determined that one way or another we won\u2019t lose the momentum [towards that outcome] that we\u2019ve built at this Cop. There\u2019s a big coalition that wants this, of developing and developed countries.<\/p>\n We need to to think creatively about the possible ways in which we could get this roadmap process going.<\/p>\n What matters to me is the outcome, that this roadmap gets launched, the countries can engage in it, and it gets to be considered by a Cop in the future. We\u2019ve got a critical mass of countries that want that to happen. But there\u2019s different ways of doing it. We\u2019re looking at all of the creative ways in which that can happen.<\/p>\n Britain’s Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, Ed Miliband during climate talks in Belem, Brazil. Updated at\u00a019.00 EST<\/p>\n Observers on the prospects of a weak deal in Belem<\/p>\n Here are a few comments that have come through from observers at Cop30<\/a> on the negotiations over the final text which continue into the evening in Belem.<\/p>\n They are not particularly positive.<\/p>\n Director of the International Climate Politics Hub Cat Abreu warns countries are not being allowed to work up plans on key issues.<\/p>\n The clock is ticking down on COP30 and the level of ambition is heading down the drain. Brazil have been fantastic hosts in Belem but at this late hour the Presidency is throttling this process and not allowing countries to work up a credible plan to cut fossil fuels, end deforestation, deliver climate finance and adapt to climate impacts.<\/p>\n If we leave here with a few words but no clear action this summit will have failed to live up to expectations on the tenth anniversary of the Paris Agreement.<\/p>\n Joab Okanda, a climate, energy and diplomacy expert, says Africa \u201ccan\u2019t afford to leave Belem with a weak deal.\u201d<\/p>\n As Kenya\u2019s envoy and Sierra Leone\u2019s Minister of Environment stressed, Africa also needs support to invest in its energy transition and deliver renewable energy access for all. A credible roadmap that delivers both would be a truly positive outcome for Africa at COP30.<\/p>\n Dr Rachel Cleetus, senior policy director for the Climate and Energy program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, says the latest texts are weaker than earlier versions and \u201cdisappointing across the board.\u201d<\/p>\n The COP Presidency must intensify its efforts to bridge differences, including in open and transparent plenaries in these final hours, to secure an ambitious outcome at COP30.<\/p>\n Fossil fuels are the root cause of the climate crisis and there is no credible pathway to meet science-based climate goals without a fast, fair, funded phaseout of fossil fuels.<\/p>\n Lower income nations cannot make this transition rapidly, nor can they close the vast energy poverty gap that millions suffer from today, without funding from richer countries. Public finance is essential.<\/p>\n Share<\/a> \u201cSimply catastrophic,\u201d says Panama of current climate text at Belem.<\/p>\n The Guardian\u2019s Damian Carrington has been speaking to Juan Carlos Monterrey, Panama\u2019s special representative for climate change.<\/p>\n Normally a fluent, firebrand speaker, Monterrey said:<\/p>\n I\u2019m honestly at a loss of words.<\/p>\n There is not much movement. We\u2019re still negotiating with a text that for Panama is just simply catastrophic – a text that fails to mention fossil fuels or deforestation, the most important drivers of the climate crisis, a text that favours the very same [fossil fuel] industries that are causing this destruction to the detriment of everybody else.<\/p>\n What\u2019s sickening is the fact that some groups of countries are accepting these texts.<\/p>\n We\u2019re counting on the EU and the block of Latin American progressive nations that we belong to continue pushing for ambition. But we we feel lonely sometimes.<\/p>\n The EU and other developed nations have been criticised for not strengthening their commitment to providing climate finance to developing countries, especially for adaptation, i.e. protecting people against extreme weather supercharged by global heating.<\/p>\n Monterrey said that was fair to a point:<\/p>\n But what we have also seen is the EU are willing to engage constructively on adaptation finance. I have had direct conversations with them and the UK. But I also understand that we need more ambition [on cutting fossil fuel emissions] in the text for them to open up the chequebook a little bit more. The two go together.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cWins for nature still feel distant\u201d says major US conservation group<\/p>\n Some words here from Clare Shakya, the global managing director of climate at The Nature Conservancy, as Cop30<\/a> waits for an expected new draft of a final text. It\u2019s 7.30pm in Belem now.<\/p>\n Whatever the final outcome, Brazil deserves real credit for pulling many of the toughest climate issues into the open in Bel\u00e9m.<\/p>\n Nature is back in the heart of talks, from deforestation and finance to Indigenous rights and adaptation, making this the most wide-ranging COP agenda since Paris. However, landmark wins for nature still feel distant at this time.<\/p>\n Shakya says parties at the conference \u201cwill need to show a hell of a lot more ambition in the final text for it to be considered a success.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Thanks to Oliver Milman for that sterling effort steering the blog. This is Graham Readfearn in Brisbane taking over.<\/p>\n We are still at it in Belem on the final day of this fractious 30th Conference of the Parties \u2013 or Cop30<\/a> for short. And Friday is almost never the final day at UN climate talks.<\/p>\n Thanks for sticking with us. On we go.<\/p>\n Share<\/a> Rich countries not doing enough on finance says Pakistan<\/p>\n Aisha Humaira, the head of delegation for Pakistan, has said that laying the blame on developing countries for lack of progress towards a transition away from fossil fuels is unfair while developed countries refuse to provide the finance needed for it to take place fairly.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is an issue of climate justice, the burden that developed countries carry for the climate chance happening now that needs to be fulfilled,\u201d she told the Guardian. \u201cIt is part of the Paris Agreement that they have to pay developing countries to make the transition. That\u2019s why article 9 is very important \u2013 and tripling the adaptation fund is not a huge demand.\u201d:<\/p>\n Humaira said that adaptation was crucial for her country, which was facing intense impacts from climate change, including devastating floods and sweltering heatwaves. But she said that it was unfair for developed countries to expect countries like hers which still have widespread poverty to sacrifice economic growth. Countries like Pakistan and their peers needed technology, finance and support from the global north in order to make the transition.<\/p>\n And she pointed out the hypocrisy of developed countries asking the developing work to make a transition to clean energy they have not yet achieved.<\/p>\n She said: \u201cCountries that have used all sources of energy in the last 200 years and have achieved the pinnacle of industrial growth and yet not stopped using all those sources of energy are telling us \u201cstop growing\u201d. The right to growth and security is fundamental for every country.<\/p>\n \u201cThat is the issue. Every individual is important. If a citizen in a developed country wants to live a high quality of life then the same right also exists in a developing country.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a016.54 EST<\/p>\n Africa is still pushing for a tripling of the finance available from rich countries to help the poor world adapt to the impacts of the climate crisis. \u201cWe already compromised a lot,\u201d said Richard Muyungi, Tanzania\u2019s presidential envoy and current chair of the African Group of Nations. \u201cBut we cannot compromise on the means of implementation, the tripling of adaptation finance.\u201d<\/p>\n He said developed countries demanded the group\u2019s support for a roadmap to \u201ctransition away from fossil fuels\u201d as the price of any support for an increase in adaptation finance.<\/p>\n Muyungi argued: \u201cThe phase-out of fossil fuels is not an African issue. We emit only 4% of total global emissions, and we have never discussed a phase-out. We have been discussing a phase down.\u201d<\/p>\n He asked: \u201cWhy are we being held to ransom? It\u2019s like you are trading our lives with something we never caused. So they were saying, \u2018If you do not accept phase out, we cannot give you the triple of adaptation.\u2019 We said, \u2018We cannot accept that.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n He said the group had been put under pressure to accept the removal of language calling for an increase in adaptation finance from the draft text of an outcome. But he replied: \u201cAdaptation is a just request for the continent, and has nothing to do with the discussions on phasing out.\u201d<\/p>\n This would require about $120bn a year in finance for adaptation. Developing countries can gain access to finance from the private sector for the technology they need to cut greenhouse gases and shift to a low-carbon economy, such as wind and solar power. But getting the private sector to invest in adaptation projects \u2013 such as defences against flooding, or changing the crops that farmers grow \u2013 is almost impossible.<\/p>\n Developing countries want more of the finance for adaptation to be delivered in the form of grants, not loans. However, developed countries have insisted on arduous \u201cindicators\u201d showing how the money is spent, which has been another bone of contention at these talks.<\/p>\n On the transition away from fossil fuels, Muyungi previously told the Guardian that Africa should be allowed to exploit its fossil fuel reserves, as rich countries had exploited theirs. Tanzania has large gas reserves, which it is planning to exploit in partnership with Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n Share<\/a> \u201cCop30 still has a choice \u2013 to protect people and life or the fossil fuel industry.\u201d That was the message delivered<\/a> directly to President Lula by eminent climate scientists here at Cop30 in Bel\u00e9m, led by Prof Johan Rockstr\u00f6m, from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany. The scientists laid out the simple scientific reality.<\/p>\n \u201cThe global curve of greenhouse gas emissions needs to bend next year, 2026, not sometime in the future,\u201d they told him. \u201cWe need to start, now, to reduce CO2 emissions from fossil-fuels, by at least 5% per year. This must happen in order to have a chance to avoid unmanageable and extremely costly climate impacts affecting all people in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n To phase out fossil fuels quickly, the scientists said finance from rich countries to developing countries was imperative: \u201cWithout scaling and reforming climate finance, developing countries cannot plan, cannot invest and cannot deliver the transitions needed for a shared survival.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe global carbon budget, calculated by science, forms the backbone to guide the pace of emission reductions [needed],\u201d the scientists said. \u201cThe remaining carbon budget [for 1.5C] is now essentially consumed, down to 130 billion tons of CO2, equivalent to 3-4 years of global emissions at current rate.<\/p>\n \u201cThis scientific budget provides the basis for all serious climate policy. It is our accounting tool away from danger. Removing the carbon budget from the text, means removing reality from the Cop.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a> Our Kids\u2019 Climate, a campaign group of parents, released a short film on Friday of the Global Climate March on the streets of Bel\u00e9m – it captures the colour and energy of the march.<\/p>\n Their message to the countries negotiating at Cop30<\/a> is simple: \u201cParents are watching. Our kids deserve a fighting chance of a safe, thriving future. Look at the energy and passion on the streets of Bel\u00e9m. We need a fair, fast shift from fossil fuels to clean, renewable energy to protect what we love: our kids and our planet.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a015.51 EST<\/p>\n Arab countries reject fossil fuel phase out as EU warns of Cop deal collapse The Arab group of nations at COP30 has insisted its energy industry is off limits and any mention of the subject would lead to a collapse of the climate talks, according to NGO observers.<\/p>\n![\"Fiona](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763802551_542_Fiona_Harvey_old_image.png\")
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