The two words missing from the world's most important climate conference agreement

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : The statement recognises the need to phase out fossil fuels as soon as possible, and welcomes the recent International Court of Justice advisory opinion on states' responsibilities regarding climate change.
58% : "This is the strongest ever statement from Australia on fossil fuels, and we intend to hold them to it," Bradshaw said in a statement.
56% : "We need to make sure that the shift from fossil fuels to clean energy is real and in the text.
56% : " Australia is one of around 80 countries advocating for the inclusion of a transition away from fossil fuels, along with the European Union and the United Kingdom.
55% : An agreement to transition away from fossil fuels was included in the wording of the COP28 conference in Dubai in 2023.
55% : It was the first COP to officially recognise the role of fossil fuels in global warming, but stopped short of calling for a full "phase out" of their usage.
52% : Australia also signed the Belém Declaration on the Transition Away from Fossil Fuels, along with two dozen other countries.
49% : Wyns said a COP outcome that doesn't name fossil fuels, or where an agreement isn't reached at all, would be a "significant step back".
45% : Source: AAP / Andre Penner As the clocks struck midnight on the final day of the COP30 conference in Belém, Brazil, negotiators struggled to reach consensus over the wording of a draft agreement that omitted references to transitioning away from fossil fuels.
44% : The text was in stark contrast to an earlier draft, which offered three separate options for nations to reduce their reliance on coal, oil and gas -- the source of 68 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to the United Nations.
43% : "A lot of parties were quite surprised," Wyns told SBS News, adding that references to deforestation were also removed. Wopke Hoekstra, the European Union's commissioner for climate, net zero and clean growth, said in a statement on Friday that the 27-member bloc would not accept the omission of fossil fuels.
36% : " Juan Carlos Monterrey, negotiator for Panama, said at a press conference on Friday morning that failure to include fossil fuels risks the talks turning into a "clown show".

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