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After COP30 Stalls on Fossil Fuels, Brazil to Draft New Climate Roadmaps

Brazil's COP30 presidency will draft two new roadmaps after the summit failed to secure a binding plan to phase out fossil fuels. After about 19 hours of overtime talks, nearly 200 countries approved a joint declaration but could not agree on timelines for ending fossil-fuel use or a new forest action plan. Parties instead endorsed a voluntary initiative to accelerate national efforts and reaffirmed a 2030 deforestation pledge; observers noted presidency-led proposals lack the authority of consensus-backed decisions.

06:37 AM, 11/23/2025Environment
After COP30 Stalls on Fossil Fuels, Brazil to Draft New Climate Roadmaps

Brazil's organizers of this year's UN climate talks said they will draft two new roadmaps to push for stronger global climate action after COP30 concluded without a binding agreement to phase out fossil fuels.

Following roughly 19 hours of overtime negotiations, nearly 200 countries approved a joint declaration, but delegates failed to agree on concrete timelines to end fossil-fuel use or to adopt a new, stronger forest action plan. Instead of a binding fossil-fuel exit timetable, parties endorsed a voluntary initiative designed to accelerate national efforts, and the conference reaffirmed an earlier pledge to halt deforestation by 2030.

COP30 President André Corrêa do Lago said the Brazilian presidency will prepare 'two further roadmaps' — one aimed at stopping and reversing deforestation and another focused on charting a path away from fossil fuels — and acknowledged that 'some of you had greater ambitions for some of the issues at hand.' Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva had urged concrete, actionable plans at the summit's outset, but delegates were unable to secure consensus on those measures.

Observers welcomed the intention to continue work on both issues but cautioned that proposals advanced unilaterally by the presidency do not carry the same authority as decisions formally adopted by all parties. The roadmaps are expected to be presented for broader discussion and could help shape future negotiations, but any binding commitments will still require multilateral agreement.

Key outcomes:
No binding timeline for a fossil-fuel phase-out; no new forest action plan adopted; a voluntary acceleration initiative endorsed; the 2030 deforestation pledge reaffirmed.

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