The COP is coy on fossil fuels

There is growing demand that COP30 in Brazil create a global roadmap for the end of oil, coal and gas

- Bibek Bhattacharya [e-mail]

The COP30 international climate summit is underway in Belem, Brazil. It has 145 'Agenda Items' to discuss and come to some sort of consensus about. And they are extremely important, like increasing climate finance to poor and developing countries, finding ways to reduce planet-heating greenhouse gases (GHG) like CO2 and methane, and protecting the rights of indigenous people. But the single most important item is the one that is not on the menu. And that is reaching a consensus on a timeline for phasing out the use of fossil fuels.