COP30: Compromise deal sidesteps fossil fuels

World governments agreed Saturday to a compromise climate deal at the COP30 conference in Brazil that would boost finance for poor nations coping with global warming but omit any mention of the fossil fuels driving it.

- REUTERS

In securing the accord, countries attempted to demonstrate global unity in addressing climate change impacts even after world's biggest historic emitter, the United States, declined to send an official delegation.

"We should support it because at least it is going in the right direction," the European Union's climate commissioner, Wopke Hoekstra, told reporters before the deal was gaveled through.