The Minister of the Environment defended this Friday, November 21, that the new proposal of the Brazilian presidency of COP30 “is not ambitious enough” in mitigation and does not contain an “explicit reference” to the abandonment of fossil fuels, but expressed hope for an “ambitious agreement”.
“We had the European Union coordination meeting to analyze the document and the European Union’s position is that the document is not ambitious enough in mitigation, in reducing emissions, and does not have an explicit reference to reducing fossil fuels”, Maria da Graça Carvalho told Lusa in Belém, Brazil, where the UN conference on climate change takes place.
On the last day of COP30, the Portuguese minister expressed the hope that it would be possible to reach an agreement “that has some ambition, that is ambitious”.
The Brazilian presidency of COP30 published today a new proposal for an agreement, which does not contain any reference to the abandonment of fossil fuels, an issue that had been demanded by dozens of countries.
Throughout the seven pages of the proposal for the presidency of the 30th UN conference on climate change (COP30), entitled Mutirão Global: Uniting humanity in a global mobilization against climate change and published this morning, there is not a single reference to fossil fuels.
The need for a transition away from fossil fuels was officially mentioned for the first time at COP28 in Dubai, without clarifying how or when, but the Brazilian president launched it at the opening of COP30.
The idea of a roadmap for abandonment and the first draft presented on Tuesday by Brazil presented options to be negotiated.
However, the text known today, published on the last official day of the conference, limits itself to recognizing the “record levels of global renewable energy capacity and investments in clean energy”.
More than thirty countries wrote to the Brazilian presidency of the UN climate conference (COP30) on Thursday asking it to include a roadmap for the gradual elimination of fossil energy, according to a text cited by AFP.
“We are deeply concerned about the current proposal, whether to accept or reject it”, write Colombia, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, among more than three dozen countries, according to a list provided by the Colombian delegation to AFP.