By Bob Berwyn
November 24, 2025
Editor’s note: This story was originally published by Inside Climate News. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
After negotiators at COP30 retreated from meaningful climate action by failing to specifically mention the need to stop using fossil fuels in the final conference documents published Saturday, the disappointment inside the COP30 conference center was as pervasive as the diesel fumes from the generators outside the tent.
This year’s United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was billed as the “COP of Truth” by host country Brazil, but it could go down in history “as the deadliest talk show ever,” said Harjeet Singh, founding director of the Satat Sampada Climate Foundation in India and strategic advisor to the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative.
COP30 was yet another “theater of delay” with endless discussions, and the creation of yet more administrative duties, “solely to avoid the actions that matter—committing to a just transition away from fossil fuels and putting money on the table,” he said.
A draft text released Nov. 18 clearly spelled out the need to transition away from fossil fuels, but in the final version, the language was watered down, merely acknowledging that “the global transition towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate-resilient development is irreversible and the trend of the future.”
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By Daphne Wysham, Trina Chiemi
It appeared to be a grim déjà vu when the final gavel dropped in Belem, Brazil and the COP30 text once again avoided naming fossil fuels.
At COP28 in Dubai, governments committed to tripling renewable energy and doubling energy efficiency by 2030. Combined with deep cuts to fossil methane, these pledges form a powerful trio. According to the Climate Action Tracker, fully implementing them would reduce projected warming by about 0.9°C this century, from 2.6˚C to 1.7˚C — enough to determine whether Paris Agreement targets remains within reach. If delivered, they would do more to collapse fossil-fuel demand than any language missing from the COP30 outcome text.
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Coup de force à la COP30 : énergies fossiles et déforestation exclus d’un accord décevant
22 novembre 2025
Nouvelle COP, nouveau fiasco. Samedi 22 novembre à 17 h 41 (heure française), le président de la conférence onusienne, André Correa do Lago, a frappé trois fois de son marteau pour officialiser la fin des négociations. Un geste qui a aussitôt été accueilli par la révolte de plusieurs diplomates.
L’Union européenne, la Colombie, la Suisse et le Panama ont affirmé ne jamais avoir donné leur approbation au texte d’accord validé par le président lors de cette ultime plénière. Celui-ci aurait clos les débats… sans leur accorder la parole.
Tentant de calmer la grogne ainsi suscitée, André Correa do Lago s’est alors excusé : « Je regrette de ne pas avoir vu les drapeaux [se lever pour réclamer la parole]. » De sa tribune, il a assuré aux voix dissidentes que leur mécontentement serait notifié dans le rapport final.
Cette maigre compensation n’a pas suffi à mettre fin à l’indignation des délégations. « Nous ne demandons pas à être mentionnés dans le rapport », a rétorqué la déléguée colombienne.
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