COP30 calls for unity amid fossil fuel deadlock

(CLO) Brazil, the host country of COP30, has called on countries to unite to reach an international agreement on climate, as the conference has passed its scheduled end date of November 21.

Brazil sees the summit as a decisive moment for international cooperation on climate action, calling on countries to overcome their differences.

"This cannot be an agenda that divides us," COP30 President André Corrêa do Lago told delegates in a public plenary session before parties dispersed to continue negotiations.

COP30 is still arguing over the final agreement even though the conference's scheduled time has expired. Photo: COP30

However, the rift over the future of oil, gas and coal has highlighted the difficulties in reaching consensus at the annual UN climate change conference.

The excessive use of fossil fuels over the past decades has been identified as the main cause of global warming, making natural disasters more severe, such as storms, floods, droughts and heat waves.

However, the draft agreement released by Brazil on Friday makes no mention of fossil fuels at all, completely eliminating a range of options on the subject.

Many countries, including major oil and gas producers, have called the options unacceptable, while some 80 nations have voiced support for including a phase-out of fossil fuels in the deal.

The impasse between the two groups continued on Friday, leaving talks at a standstill.

Panamanian negotiator Juan Carlos Monterrey told a press conference on Friday morning that excluding fossil fuels from the COP30 agreement risks turning the talks into a "farce".

“Failure to address the causes of the climate crisis is not compromise. It is denial,” he said.

The European Union's climate commissioner, Wopke Hoekstra, said the draft agreement was unacceptable.

The two-week conference in the Amazon city of Belem was scheduled to end at 6:00 p.m. local time on November 21 (4:00 a.m. on November 22 Vietnam time), but like previous COPs, it has exceeded that deadline and will continue to have to extend the time.

The text of the agreement needs to be approved by nearly 200 countries present to be passed.

The US has refused to send an official delegation to COP30 under President Donald Trump, who has recently declared himself a climate change denier.

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