Amazon climate deal a 'win' for global unity but fossil fuels untouched

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Colombia "does not accept" the deal, said President Gustavo Petro, whose country is hosting a world-first summit on a fossil fuel phaseout in April next year.
50% : "We know some of you had greater ambitions for some of the issues at hand," said COP30 president Andre Correa do Lago, who offered to create a voluntary "roadmap" away from fossil fuels as a consolation.
50% : Most of that goes to projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, such as renewable energy, and not to adaptation -- something developing nations have long complained puts them at a disadvantage.
49% : This reflected concerns from countries including China that trade measures -- like taxes on carbon-intensive goods -- could erode export revenues or throw up barriers to green technology sales. - Forests - At COP30, Brazil launched a new global investment vehicle that proposes paying out a share of profits to forest-rich countries for every hectare of trees they leave standing.
49% : At COP30, seven countries -- Britain, France, Canada, Germany, Norway, Japan and Kazakhstan -- signed a statement vowing to achieve "near zero" methane emissions across the fossil fuel sector.
49% : COP30: Key reactions to climate deal Belem, Brazil (AFP) Nov 22, 2025 - Nearly 200 nations on Saturday pushed through a modest deal at the UN's COP30 climate summit in the Amazon region of host country Brazil.
49% : " - Europe - "We're not going to hide the fact that we would have preferred to have more, to have more ambition on everything," EU climate commissioner Wopke Hoekstra told reporters, while saying the deal was still "the right direction.
47% : Here are the main negotiated outcomes, and the voluntary commitments, made during the summit attended by nearly 200 nations: - Fossil fuels - The thorniest issues were bundled into a "mutirao" pact -- the summit's slogan, drawn from the Tupi-Guarani word for "collective effort.
47% : " The agreement included an initiative for countries to collaborate on a voluntary basis to reduce carbon emissions and strive to limit global warming to 1.5C relative to pre-industrial levels.
46% : It also noted a commitment made by all nations at COP28 in Dubai to "transition away from fossil fuels" -- but this exact phrase, which has become politically sensitive, was not included.
45% : "We're not going to hide the fact that we would have preferred to have more," said EU climate chief Wopke Hoekstra.
45% : Ilan Zugman, Latin American and Caribbean director for the organization 350.org, said that "the lack of concrete commitments in the final text of COP30 shows us who is still benefiting from the delay: the fossil fuel industry and the ultrarich, not those living the climate crisis every day."
44% : The Alliance of Small Island States -- a bloc of 39 of the world's most climate-imperiled nations -- said the deal was "imperfect, but necessary progress" for a global body that operates by consensus. - Fossil fuels flop - Dozens of countries had threatened to walk away from the talks without an exit strategy from oil, gas and coal -- instead, the deal points to a previous pact on fossil fuels, without explicitly using those words.
44% : "President Lula set the bar high in calling for roadmaps to end fossil fuels and deforestation, but a divided multilateral landscape was unable to hurdle it," said Carolina Pasquali from Greenpeace Brazil. - Money and trade - Brazil sought to manage expectations of landing a major deal given the state of geopolitics and a hostile United States.
44% : Despite pressure from more than 80 nations from Europe to Latin American to the Pacific, the conference did not adopt a "roadmap" to phase out fossil fuels.
44% : But the formal negotiations fell short in many respects, he said, notably on the lack of a fossil fuel phaseout plan, leading to a "weakened" deal.
31% : " The president of Colombia Gustavo Petro slammed the deal's lack of plan to phase out fossil fuels, saying Colombia "does not accept" that the declaration "doesn't say with clarity, as science does, that the cause of the climate crisis is fossil fuels.
27% : " - Guterres - The head of the United Nations commended the weeks of efforts but said he understood that "many may feel disappointed" with the results, including Indigenous people, youth, and those now feeling the worst impacts of climate change.

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