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(22 Nov 2025)
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Belem, Brazil - 22 November 2025
1. Sign and entrance to COP presidency offices where delegations were meeting to debate
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Gerard Wittoeck, Belgian delegate:
"Major pushback is coming from the like-minded developing countries and the Arab group, which represent fossil fuel interests, obviously, and the interests of big emerging economies and, you know, the fear of being limited in their economic development. That's where the major pushback is coming in from on that side."
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Sara Aagesen, Spanish Ecological Transition Minister:
"We believe it (fossil fuel roadmap) is a very important aspect. We have demonstrated this through alliances and statements throughout this week. We have limits to how far we can go. Of course, it is Spain's ambition, and you can be sure of that. The only thing is that it is a very complicated context in which we have to find that balance between the different positions. And we are still here, and I think it is going to be a long night."
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Lidy Nacpil, coordinator of the Asian Peoples' Movement on Debt and Development:
"We are the first people who have the greatest at stake for a rapid, equitable, and just transition out of fossil fuels. But we cannot accept this circus over a roadmap that is offering us nothing. We cannot accept that this roadmap is now being held as an instrument to hold hostage all the other demands that we have that are equally urgent."
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STORYLINE:
Delegates at U.N. climate talks worked into the early hours of Saturday to find common ground on a host of proposals, including a push by many nations to explicitly cite the cause of global warming: the burning of oil, gas and coal to power our world.

The annual talks are this year being held in Belem, a Brazilian city on the edge of the Amazon rainforest.

Talks were scheduled to wrap up on Friday, but negotiators flew past that deadline and it wasn't clear when they may finish.

Nations moved into high-level negotiations behind closed doors.

A key text among host Brazil's proposals deals with four difficult issues. They include financial aid for vulnerable countries hit hardest by climate change and getting countries to toughen up their national plans to reduce Earth-warming emissions.

Then there's the dispute over creating a detailed road map for the world to phase out the fossil fuels that are largely driving Earth's increasing extreme weather.

Any such plan would expand on a single sentence — to “transition away” from fossil fuels — agreed upon two years ago at the climate talks in Dubai.

But no timetable or process was spelled out and powerful oil-producing nations like Saudi Arabia and Russia oppose it.

More than 80 nations have called for stronger direction and Brazil President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva also pushed for it earlier this month.

The Brazilian proposals — also called texts — came on the heels of a fire on Thursday that briefly spread through pavilions of the conference known as COP30 on the edge of the Amazon.

No one was seriously hurt but the fire meant that a day of work was largely lost.

On phasing out fossil fuels, the proposal “acknowledges that the global transition towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate-resilient development is irreversible and the trend of the future.”


A key issue is that the 119 national emissions-curbing plans submitted this year don't come close to limiting warming to 1.5 degrees.







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