{"id":217607,"date":"2025-06-27T03:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T03:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/217607\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T03:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T03:47:10","slug":"brazils-environment-minister-suggests-roadmap-to-end-fossil-fuels-at-cop30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/217607\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil’s environment minister suggests roadmap to end fossil fuels at COP30"},"content":{"rendered":"

As divisions held back emissions-cutting talks in Bonn, where countries gathered for the mid-year UN climate negotiations, Brazil\u2019s environment minister Marina Silva put on the table an idea for a way forward: a roadmap to end the use of fossil fuels, the headline promise of the Dubai deal<\/a> from 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In response to a question from Climate Home during a press briefing on the sidelines of London Climate Action Week on Thursday, Silva said this year\u2019s climate summit in Bel\u00e9m could result in a roadmap setting out what a \u201cplanned and just transition to end fossil fuels\u201d should look like.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cPerhaps we can come out of COP30 with a mandated group that can trace the roadmap for this transition,\u201d she added, speaking to journalists in the lavish residence of Brazil\u2019s ambassador to the UK.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In Bonn, countries have been discussing for two weeks how to take forward the commitments agreed as part of Dubai\u2019s Global Stocktake, including the pledge to transition away from fossil fuels in energy systems, with little progress<\/a> on a way forward at COP30 later in November.<\/p>\n

As countries have a deadline to present new national climate plans by September this year, the \u201cUAE dialogue on implementing the Global Stocktake outcomes\u201d is expected to inform new climate policies and signal steps to meet the Paris Agreement goal of limiting warming \u201cwell below\u201d 2C. But negotiations broke down at COP29, and have barely inched forward at Bonn this year.<\/p>\n

Jennifer Morgan, an architect of the landmark Dubai deal and until recently Germany\u2019s climate envoy, told an event at London Climate Action Week that the breakthrough at COP28 is now \u201cat risk\u201d unless delivery on its commitments is speeded up.<\/p>\n

Ever since COP28, governments have repeatedly failed to make explicit mentions of their promise of transitioning away from fossil fuels. At last year\u2019s biodiversity COP in Colombia, this was left out<\/a> of the final agreement despite a push from vulnerable countries, and at COP29 Saudi Arabia successfully blocked <\/a>all mentions of fossil fuels.<\/p>\n

Forests in the mix<\/p>\n

Brazil\u2019s environment minister said in London she has advocated for countries to agree on a roadmap at COP30, which can guide an end to fossil fuel production and consumption. She added that the same can be done to achieve a goal of ending deforestation by 2030, also featured in the Dubai deal.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are making a roadmap to reach the $1.3 trillion [in climate finance], so let\u2019s plan the end of fossil fuel use and the end of deforestation,\u201d said Silva. \u201cThe worst possible thing would be for us to not plan for this transition.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brazil hinted at this solution for a just transition away from fossil fuels in its nationally determined contribution (NDC) released last November \u2013 but it is the first time a senior minister has advocated for the plan to be discussed at COP30.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Brazilian minister, who is a close ally to President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva, said that when the agreement on fossil fuels was struck in Dubai, the idea was that developed countries should lead and developing nations should follow in driving down both production and consumption.<\/p>\n

But \u201cthe wars\u201d have changed circumstances, she added, without giving more details.\u00a0\u201cThe big challenge of COP30 is to not let that commitment have no practical consequence,\u201d Silva added.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As divisions held back emissions-cutting talks in Bonn, where countries gathered for the mid-year UN climate negotiations, Brazil\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[728,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-217607","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114753283374773486","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}