(Bloomberg) — International climate negotiations were in disarray Friday afternoon after Arab nations and Russia objected to further talks on shifting away from fossil fuels and taking stronger steps to counter global warming.<\/p>\n
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The Brazilian officials running the COP30 summit in Bel\u00e9m abruptly halted broad closed-door discussions and directed the UK, China and the European Union to lead smaller huddles on the most challenging issues facing negotiators, specifically finance, trade and climate ambition.<\/p>\n
Inside the closed meeting, Brazilian officials ruled out discussions on adopting a road map for how countries will transition away from oil, natural gas and coal, according to people familiar with the meeting who asked not to be named because deliberations were private. Roughly 80 countries have demanded the COP30 summit produce some kind of guidelines or formal process for helping the world deliver on its two-year-old promise to transition away from fossil fuels.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re facing the reality of a no-deal scenario,\u201d said Wopke Hoekstra, the EU\u2019s climate commissioner earlier Friday. \u201cHow can anyone who is reading that across the world not be deeply disappointed?\u201d<\/p>\n
Although the COP30 talks were scheduled to close Friday evening, they are now set to run into overtime amid the clashes. The day started for delegates in the early hours after the Brazilian summit presidency unveiled a seven-page draft proposal that provoked widespread anger. A fire that erupted Thursday at the conference venue on the edge of the Amazon, closing it for roughly six hours, has added to the challenges in Bel\u00e9m.<\/p>\n
A group of 36 countries, ranging from the UK to Colombia and Palau, said they wouldn\u2019t be able to support the proposal in its current form, and they criticized Brazil for pitching it as a \u201ctake-it-or-leave-it\u201d text. EU ministers at the COP30 summit were told to check with national capitals whether they would allow a veto of the deal, according to people familiar with matter.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe cannot support an outcome that does not include a road map for implementing a just, orderly, and equitable transition away from fossil fuels,\u201d the countries said in a letter seen by Bloomberg. \u201cTrue leadership requires delivering a text that advances the global response to the climate crisis \u2014 not one that lowers expectations to accommodate the most reluctant.\u201d<\/p>\n
Many countries had sought a stronger response to sobering assessments of the world\u2019s lagging progress so far in curbing greenhouse gas emissions. Some had been pushing for a more formal, aggressive response to individual country commitments \u2014 known as nationally determined contributions \u2014 for future emission-cutting work.<\/p>\n
Dubbed the \u201cGlobal Mutir\u00e3o,\u201d after the Brazilian term for joint effort, the draft may also cause further rifts within the Brazilian government, with environment and climate minister Marina Silva being one of the main proponents of a fossil fuel road map.<\/p>\n
COP30 leaders stressed the importance of achieving some deal, even if it leaves some parties dissatisfied.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe all know how many obstacles there are for putting words into practice and also we all know how difficult it is to reach consensus,\u201d COP30 President Andr\u00e9 Corr\u00eaa do Lago told delegates Friday. Even for Brazil there are very significant challenges, \u201cand some of our priorities may not go ahead the way we like.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Nations who are strongly behind the road map, including some that are bearing the brunt of climate change, described the Brazilian presidency as silencing their call for ambition.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have had 30 years trying to address the real problems, and we are 30 years too late,\u201d said Irene Velez Torres, Colombia\u2019s environment minister. \u201cWe cannot accept a text that is not dealing with the real problems.\u201d<\/p>\n
Negotiators arrived in Bel\u00e9m almost two weeks ago amid a gloomy outlook for progress of climate action, following President Donald Trump\u2019s decision to withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement, which commits countries to keep the rise in global temperatures below 2C and ideally 1.5C.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Developed country negotiators, who asked not to be named while deliberations are ongoing, said that during talks Thursday, a small number of hardline countries were rejecting any effort to include a process to move away from polluting sources of energy.<\/p>\n
The push to exit from fossil fuels has long been one of the most controversial aspects of the annual UN climate talks. Corr\u00eaa do Lago has said there\u2019s \u201csignificant resistance\u201d to an agreement that envisages the next steps away from fossil fuels, and producer countries such as Saudi Arabia have frequently acted as a block on references to their phase-out.<\/p>\n
A \u201cBel\u00e9m Mission to 1.5\u201d is proposed as a way to help countries implement their national emissions-cutting pledges, while the draft decision also calls for efforts to triple adaptation finance by 2030 from 2025 levels, which is usually seen as roughly $120 billion.<\/p>\n
That reflects a clamor from some of the world\u2019s least-developed countries for more support adapting to rising seas, intensifying storms, punishing droughts and other consequences of global warming they had little hand in creating.<\/p>\n
Trade has emerged as a particularly challenging dispute, with some developing countries bristling at the European Union\u2019s carbon border adjustment mechanism and other \u201cunilateral trade measures.\u201d<\/p>\n
The draft proposal envisages three dialogues over the coming years, with participation from the World Trade Organization and other institutions.\u00a0<\/p>\n
(Updates with more details on negotiations starting in first paragraph; adds Colombian minister\u2019s comments in 13th paragraph.)<\/p>\n
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