Fossil fuel exit road maps take centre stage at COP30

The Brazilian COP30 Presidency is sprinting. It is now implementing a new dynamic in negotiations, to bring parties to agree on the most contentious, political texts by the middle of the week. Normally, COP decisions happen late in the week, with extension by a day or two being the norm.

- Jayashree Nandi

Activists during a demonstration to transition away from fossil fuels, outside the venue for the COP30 Summit on Wednesday.

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New iterations of several texts = the cover text or the Mutirao text (collective effort), on adaptation, just transition, mitigation, etc., - were to be released later Wednesday at the time of this writing, and were to be agreed upon the same night, according to officials. Belem is 8.5 hours behind IST. This follows a hectic Tuesday night when negotiators stayed up, thrashing out their differences. Brazilian President, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is expected to attend COP30 on Wednesday to see through the processes and meet negotiators from various blocs. President Lula is pushing for the provision of roadmaps for moving away from fossil fuels to be in Belem package. He is likely to also push for a decision on deforestation, according to negotiators. These issues are not a part of negotiations though. They are big ticket announcements that the Lula administration wants to achieve out of Belem.