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The presidency of the summit scheduled the closing plenary sessions for 10am this Saturday (11/22). The statement, sent during the early hours of the morning, informs that consultations for the final text went through the night in .
“The plenary sessions will meet at 10 am on Saturday, November 22. The Presidency’s consultations will continue throughout the night”, says a statement sent via the WhatsApp channel.
As of 5:30 am this Saturday, new versions of the draft final text had not yet been released. Initially, the summit was scheduled to close on Friday (11/21). However, negotiators are still trying to close points without consensus, such as a concrete plan to eliminate fossil fuels — an issue that caused controversy in the last few hours in Belém.
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This Friday, without a plan to reduce fossil fuels. The word “fossils” does not even appear in the main text of the commitment.
The energy transition has been one of the main agendas of the conference since COP26, in 2021. .
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The European Union expressed “disappointment” with the proposal. “This falls far short of the ambition we need for climate change mitigation. We are disappointed with the text being discussed,” European Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoestra said in a statement.
The draft text provides for the launch of the Global Implementation Accelerator – an initiative to reinforce the commitment made by countries in the Paris Agreement, which aims to limit the increase in global temperature to 1.5°C.
The Climate Observatory, a non-governmental organization that brings together several environmental entities, also criticized the document, claiming that the text presented “cannot be accepted as a result of the conference”.
“The so-called ‘Belém Package’, the set of COP30 decisions published in the early hours of this Friday (21), is unbalanced, and cannot be accepted as a result of the conference. The drafts presented are weak in the points in which they advance and are silent on a crucial issue: they do not meet the determination of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, with the support of 82 countries, to provide a roadmap to implement the transition away from fossil fuels. This expression, in fact, does not appear in any instead of the 13 published texts”, criticized the NGO.
