UN climate talks in Belém, Brazil fail to agree on a concrete and time-bound roadmap to transition away from fossil fuels. COP30 fell short of mentioning fossil fuels in the final text on cutting emissions, despite more than 80 countries backing a fossil fuel phaseout roadmap championed by President Lula.
At COP30 the world received another set of new words and promises, but still no plan to deliver on what science demands, communities need and what countries have already agreed upon during previous negotiations.
Indonesia receives the Fossil of the Day for bringing fossil-fuel lobbyists into its delegation – and even into its intervention in the Article 6.4 carbon-market negotiations – where Indonesia copied lobbyists’ talking points, sometimes verbatim, and presented them as its own.
The action brought together Indigenous peoples from across Latin America, activists from around the world and over 100 organisations, and has already been recognised as one of the defining moments of the conference.
The 1600 fossil fuel representatives at COP30 outnumber official delegates from the Philippines by nearly 50 to 1, and “fossil fuel lobbyists have received two thirds more passes to COP30 than all the delegates from the 10 most climate vulnerable nations combined”.
Residents led by the Bali Coalition for the Environment and Sustainability Movement (PULIHKAN BALI) initiated a climate lawsuit against the Indonesian government due to its failure to mitigate floods that caused 18 deaths and massive destruction last September 9-10, 2025.
