COP30 fails to secure fossil fuel pledges

第30届联合国气候变化大会未能获得化石燃料承诺

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2025-11-23

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Nearly 200 nations agree on a compromise deal on tackling climate change at the COP30 summit in Brazil - but without any commitment to phase out fossil fuels. We speak to Sierra Leone Minister of The Environment and Climate Change Jiwoh Abdulai, who represented the Least Developed Countries group on finance and transition talks. Also in the programme: All educational institutions in Niger state have been ordered to close following a mass abduction on Friday of more than three hundred children and staff from a Catholic boarding school; and we reflect on the lasting cultural relevance of beloved Pixar film series Toy Story. (Pictured: André Corrêa do Lago, COP30 president, sits as Simon Stiell, United Nations climate chief, left, speaks with other U.N. officials during a plenary session at the COP30 U.N. Climate Summit. Credit: AP Photo/Andre Penner)
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  • Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service coming live from London.

  • This is Owen Bennett Jones and coming up later in the program we'll get the latest on the US Russian proposals for a ceasefire in Ukraine and we'll take a look at the politics of Marjorie Taylor Greene.

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  • But we begin with the conference we've heard so much about over the last month,

  • the COP30 Climate Change Summit in Brazil.

  • It's ended with a compromise that would cheers as the COP30 president, Andrei Correia-Delago,

  • announced that the agreement on a framework to promote a collective understandings in line with the Paris Agreement had been finalized.

  • United Arab Emirates Just Transition Work Programme.

  • contained in documents CMA slash 2025 L dot 14.

  • Typically technical language coming out of COP 30.

  • Some, despite those cheers, were not all that happy.

  • Delegates did agree to boost finance for poor nations,

  • but one person there said they'd never seen so many people so underwhelmed by so little progress at a COP.

  • One of the key issues was the role of fossil fuels in climate change,

  • and there was no consensus on that.

  • So there was no explicit mention of fossil fuels in the final agreement.

  • It is being put into a so-called roadmap instead.

  • That has less force behind it.

  • One of the countries that was unhappy with the final outcome was Panama.