Posted on 11/21/2025 4:56:33 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
A bitter row over fossil fuels has broken out at the COP30 UN climate talks in Belém, Brazil, as the meeting formally runs over time.
At the heart of the row is a disagreement over how strong a deal should be on working to reduce the world's use of fossil fuels, whose emissions are by far the largest contributor to climate change.
The dispute pits groups of countries against each other, but all 194 parties must agree in order to pass a deal at the two-week summit.
Representatives and observers from inside a guarded negotiating room say the talks have become very difficult.
One negotiator inside the room told the BBC that there "is a lot of fighting".
The talks were meant to finish at 1800 local time (2100GMT) and will now spill into overtime.
But the cruise ships that many delegations are staying on due to lack of accommodation in Belém depart the city on Saturday, piling on the pressure.
Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and some countries including the UK want the summit to commit nations to stronger, faster action to reduce their use of fossil fuels.
It would advance a deal made two years ago, at COP28 in Dubai, that committed countries to "transition away from fossil fuels".
A first draft of an agreement in Brazil offered three options including timeframes, but the latest version has no mention of fossil fuels.
French Environment Minister Monique Barbut said the deal was being blocked by "oil-producing countries - Russia, India, Saudi Arabia, but joined by many emerging countries." She added: "As it stands now, we have nothing left."
The BBC has approached Saudi Arabia for comment.
Speaking to journalists outside the negotiating room, Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero Ed Miliband said the UK...
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> A bitter row over fossil fuels has broken out at the COP30 UN climate talks in Belém, Brazil… <
These folks have no restraint. So I hope they didn’t end up throwing gasoline bombs at each other. That would be dangerous. And it would contribute to Global Warming.
I love the way they just drop that in as if it's an immutable fact. No "allegedly" here!
In the EU, if you disagree with the above statement, will you be headed for the new EU Gulag? Will you be sentenced to 10 years of cleaning solar panels?
Heck, let's start a rumor that Mohammad discovered fossil fuels, and therefore, fossil fuels are now politically correct.
TOTAL BS
I hear Newscum signed us up for the Paris Accords again.
There is absolutely no proof that fossil fuels are causing climate change...not even a tad of proof.
And no one knows what the temperature of the earth should be beyond the existing temperature.
Where are all the jungle cannibals when you really need them?
“a disagreement over how strong a deal should be on working to reduce the world’s use of fossil fuels, …”
Nice grammar.
They're "scientists," not geniuses.
Italy is biggest importer of our coal. The global warming (nee climate change) frauds fighting amongst themselves. Good sign.
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