The latest draft negotiating text published by the COP30 Presidency does not include the word ‘fossil fuels’, as it seeks to unite efforts in a ‘global mutirão’ to tackle climate change.
The COP30 talks are due to conclude today, but may extend into the weekend given the fire that broke out at the Belém venue on Thursday.
Reuters was the first to report the dropping of the word ‘fossil fuels‘ from the latest draft resolution – in the previous draft, published on Tuesday, the term had appeared three times.
Commenting on the exclusion of fossil fuels from the draft resolution, Mark Watts, executive director of C40 Cities, said, “The draft texts we have seen this morning in Belém suggest several parties are trying to leave the global mutirão in ashes.
“We are not seeing enough ambition on fossil fuels, on a just transition, or on multilevel dialogue and action – areas that cities are leading on and are ready to go further and faster. There is an open goal for implementation on core issues with subnational partners – and it is about to be missed.”
Elsewhere, Net Zero Watch was succinct in its response, simply saying ‘Another COP, another flop.’
A COP-30 draft resolution that doesn't mention fossil fuels. UN climate delegate @hennahundal on whether a climate change conference with no roadmap is a failure pic.twitter.com/j01gScYalC
— Kim Brunhuber (@kimbrunhuber) November 21, 2025
The latest draft sets out an updated series of commitments aimed at aligning global efforts with pathways to keep temperature rise at a minimum.
It calls on ‘all actors to work together to significantly accelerate and scale up climate action worldwide […] with a view to keeping 1.5 °C within reach, building resilience and mobilising finance, technology, and capacity-building, in accordance with the principles and provisions of the Paris Agreement‘.
The draft text also includes a reference to limiting a ‘temperature overshoot’ of 1.5C, as one commentator noted on X/Twitter.
COP30 "overshoot": The latest draft "mutirão" text makes what would be a first-ever COP reference to limiting "overshoot" of 1.5C
— Simon Evans (@DrSimEvans) November 21, 2025
"reiterates its resolve to pursue efforts to limit [warming] to 1.5C [and] to limit both the magnitude and the duration of any temperature overshoot" pic.twitter.com/SnWyCZSNCn
‘Critical decade’
Noting that finance, capacity-building, and technology transfer are central to progress, the latest draft calls on parties to accelerate the implementation of their nationally determined contributions in what will be a ‘critical decade’.
It proposes the use of the ‘Global Implementation Accelerator’ as a ‘cooperative, facilitative and voluntary initiative’ to accelerate implementation and enhance international cooperation and investment in nationally determined contributions.
The text also reaffirms the need to ‘urgently advance’ the scaling up of financing to support mitigation and adaptation efforts in developing countries, with a view to mobilising at least $1.3 trillion per year in climate finance by 2035, with an interim goal of $300 billion per year.
The proposal also outlines work on loss and damage, international financial system reforms, and a two-year work programme on climate finance.
It calls on countries to ‘promote a supportive and open international economic system that would lead to sustainable economic growth and development in all Parties, particularly developing country Parties, thus enabling them better to address the problems of climate change’, adding that measures taken to combat climate change ‘should not constitute a means of arbitrary or unjustifiable discrimination or a disguised restriction on international trade’. Read more here.
🔵 Com a Zona Azul reaberta, as negociações retomarão nesta sexta-feira. Há um trabalho substancial pela frente. O presidente da COP30, embaixador André Corrêa do Lago, fala das expectativas para esta reta final. Assista! 🎥 pic.twitter.com/EkmRoysbPh
— COP30 Brasil (@Cop30noBrasil) November 21, 2025
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