The Brazilians wanted to make it a meeting “truth”. But after two weeks of work, 30e the world climate conference (COP30) reached a deadlock on Friday 21 November. Long after the official closing time of the meeting, held in the Amazonian city of Belém, tense conversations continued behind closed doors around the question of fossil fuels and funding for adaptation to global warming.
Tensions had increased quite a bit since the start of the day. At dawn, the Brazilian presidency published a new version of the text of the decisions relating to the most sensitive issues. But very quickly, in a letter addressed to the president, about thirty countries in Europe, Latin America and small islands expressed their desire “deep concern” in connection with a compromise that does not contain “minimum conditions for credible results”. These documents do not mention coal, oil and gas, which are the main causes of the climate crisis.
European countries, including France, then considered it slam the door. “ At the moment, (text) unacceptable, said Monique Barbut, France’s ecological transition minister. Either this text is taken and corrected, but we are afraid of being too isolated… or that questions will arise about what we did in the end. » He accused oil countries, India, Russia but also “many developing countries”, among them “small islands”, to hinder negotiations.
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