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<\/p>\nAfter two weeks of negotiations, this year’s United Nations climate talks ended overnight with a compromise that some criticised as weak and others called progress.<\/p>\n
The deal finalised at the COP30 conference pledged more money to help countries adapt to climate change but lacked explicit plans to transition away from the fossil fuels such as oil, coal and gas that heat the planet.<\/p>\n
The conference didn’t do as much as scientists thought the world needed. It wasn’t as meaningful as activists and Indigenous people demanded. Few countries got everything they wanted. And the venue even caught fire.<\/p>\n
But that disappointment was mixed with a few wins and the hope for countries to make more progress next year.<\/p>\n
Here’s what you need to know about the outcome.<\/p>\n
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Andr\u00e9 Corr\u00eaa do Lago, COP30 president, arrives back into a plenary session at the COP30 U.N. Climate Summit, Saturday, November 22 (local time), 2025, in Belem, Brazil. (Andre Penner\/AP)<\/p>\n
Specifics on fighting climate change<\/p>\n
Leaders have been working on how to fight the impacts of climate change, such as extreme weather and sea level rise, for a decade. To do that, every country had the homework of writing up their own national climate plans and then reconvened this month to see if it was enough.<\/p>\n
Most didn’t get a good grade and some haven’t even turned it in.<\/p>\n
Brazil, host of the climate conference known as COP30, was trying to get them to cooperate on the toughest issues like climate-related trade restrictions, funding for climate solutions, national climate-fighting plans and more transparency on measuring those plans’ progress.<\/p>\n
More than 80 countries tried to introduce a detailed guide to phase out fossil fuels over the next several decades. There were other to-do items on topics including deforestation, gender and farming.<\/p>\n
Countries reached what critics called a weak compromise<\/p>\n
Nations agreed to triple the amount of money promised to help the vulnerable countries adapt to climate change. But they would take five more years to do it. Some vulnerable island countries said they were happy about the financial support.<\/p>\n
But the final document didn’t include a road map away from fossil fuels, angering many.<\/p>\n
After the agreement was reached, COP President Andr\u00e9 Corr\u00eaa do Lago said Brazil would take an extra step and write their own road map. Not all countries signed up to this, but those on board will meet next year to specifically talk about the fossil fuel phase out. It would not carry the same weight as something agreed to at the conference.<\/p>\n
Also included in the package were smaller agreements on energy grids and biofuels.<\/p>\n
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Attendees rest near an image of a frog as negotiations continue at the COP30 UN Climate Summit, Friday, November 21, 2025, in Belem, Brazil. (Source: Associated Press)<\/p>\n
Responses ranged from happy to angry<\/p>\n
“Given what we expected, what we came out with, we were happy,” said Ilana Seid, chair of the Alliance of Small Island States.<\/p>\n
But others felt discouraged. Heated exchanges took place during the conference\u2019s final meeting as countries snipped at each other about the fossil fuel plan.<\/p>\n
“I will be brutally honest: The COP and the UN system are not working for you. They have never really worked for you. And today, they are failing you at a historic scale,” said Juan Carlos Monterrey Gomez, a negotiator for Panama.<\/p>\n
Jiwoh Abdulai, Sierra Leone\u2019s environment and climate change minister said: “COP30 has not delivered everything Africa asked for, but it has moved the needle.” He added: “This is a floor, not a ceiling.”<\/p>\n
The real outcome of this year\u2019s climate talks would be judged on “how quickly these words turn into real projects that protect lives and livelihoods”. he said.<\/p>\n
Talks set against the Amazon rainforest<\/p>\n
Participants experienced the Amazon\u2019s extreme heat and humidity and heavy rains that flooded walkways. Organisers who chose Belem, on the edge of the rainforest, as the host city had intended for countries to experience firsthand what was at stake with climate change, and take bold action to stop it.<\/p>\n
But afterward, critics said the deal shows how hard it is to find global cooperation on issues that affect everyone, most of all people in poverty, Indigenous people, women and children around the world.<\/p>\n
“At the start of this COP, there was this high level of ambition. We started with a bang, but we ended with a whimper of disappointment,” said former Philippine negotiator Jasper Inventor, who was now at Greenpeace International.<\/p>\n
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Irene Velez Torres, minister of environment and sustainable development of Colombia, front center, speaks during a session (Source: Associated Press)<\/p>\n
Indigenous people, civil society and youth<\/p>\n
One of the nicknames for the climate talks in Brazil was the \u201cIndigenous peoples’ COP”. Yet some in those groups said they had to fight to be heard.<\/p>\n
Protesters from Indigenous groups twice disrupted the conference to demand a bigger seat at the table. While Indigenous people’s rights weren’t officially on the agenda, Taily Terena, an Indigenous woman from the Terena nation in Brazil, said so far she is happy with the text because for the first time it includes a paragraph mentioning Indigenous rights.<\/p>\n
She supported countries speaking up on procedural issues because that\u2019s how multilateralism worked. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of chaotic, but from our perspective, it\u2019s kind of good that some countries have a reaction,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After two weeks of negotiations, this year’s United Nations climate talks ended overnight with a compromise that some…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[28708,390,273,111,139,69,135,147],"class_list":{"0":"post-152090","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-central-south-america","9":"tag-climate-change","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-politics","15":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}