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U.N. Climate Conference Rejects EU Demands to Commit to Fossil Fuel Phase-Out<\/a><\/p>\n

(AFP) \u2014 Nations clinched a deal at the UN\u2019s COP30 climate summit in the Amazon Saturday without a roadmap for phasing out fossil fuels as demanded by the European Union and other countries.<\/p>\n

Nearly 200 countries approved the deal by consensus after two weeks of fraught negotiations in the Brazilian city of Belem, with the notable absence of the United States as President Donald Trump shunned the event.<\/p>\n

Applause rang out in the plenary session after COP30 president and Brazilian diplomat Andre Correa do Lago slammed a gavel signalling its approval.<\/p>\n

The EU and other nations had pushed for a deal that would call for a \u201croadmap\u201d to phase out fossil fuels, but the words do not appear in the text.<\/p>\n

Instead, the agreement calls on countries to \u201cvoluntarily\u201d accelerate their climate action and recalls the consensus reached at COP28 in Dubai. That 2023 deal called for the world to transition away from fossil fuels.<\/p>\n

The EU, which had warned that the summit could end without a deal if fossil fuels were not addressed, accepted the watered-down language.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not going to hide the fact that we would have preferred to have more, to have more ambition on everything,\u201d EU climate commissioner Wopke Hoekstra told reporters.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe should support it because it is at least going in the right direction,\u201d said Hoekstra.<\/p>\n

More than 30 countries including European nations, emerging economies and small island states had signed a letter warning Brazil they would reject any deal without a plan to move away from oil, gas and coal.<\/p>\n

But a member of an EU delegation told AFP that the 27-nation bloc was \u201cisolated\u201d and cast as the \u201cvillains\u201d at the talks.<\/p>\n

The push to phase out oil, coal and gas \u2014 the main drivers of global warming \u2014 grew out of frustration over a lack of follow-through on the COP28 agreement to transition away from fossil fuels.<\/p>\n

French ecological transition minister Monique Barbut had accused oil-rich Saudi Arabia and Russia, along with coal producer India and \u201cmany\u201d other emerging countries, of refusing language on a fossil-fuel phaseout.<\/p>\n

She said Saturday the text was bland but that there was \u201cnothing extraordinarily bad in it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The deal caps a chaotic two weeks in Belem, with Indigenous protesters breaching the venue and blocking its entrance last week and a fire erupting inside the compound on Thursday, forcing a mass evacuation.<\/p>\n

Finishing without a deal would have been a black eye for Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who had staked political capital in the success of what he called the \u201cCOP of truth.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was also a major test for international cooperation when Trump decided to skip COP30.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe also have to weigh the backdrop of geopolitics, and in the end there is no other process we have,\u201d German environment state secretary Jochen Flasbarth told AFP.<\/p>\n

Developing nations, for their part, had pushed the EU and other developed economies to pledge more money to help them adapt to the impact of climate change, such as floods and droughts, and move toward a low-carbon future.<\/p>\n

The EU had resisted such appeals but the deal calls for efforts to \u201cat least triple\u201d adaptation finance by 2035.<\/p>\n

\u201cIntergovernmental negotiations work on a minimum common denominator, but our fight will continue,\u201d a negotiator from Bangladesh told AFP in a muted reception of the terms.<\/p>\n

The EU had also rejected language on trade in the text, as demanded by China and other emerging countries. The final deal calls for \u201cdialogue\u201d on trade issues.<\/p>\n

The head of China\u2019s delegation at COP30, Li Gao, told AFP that the summit will go down as a success.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m happy with the outcome,\u201d Li said. \u201cWe achieved this success in a very difficult situation, so it shows that the international community would like to show solidarity and make joint efforts to address climate change.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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