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Brazil ends COP30 presidency with fossil fuel and forest roadmaps
Brazil's COP30 president told Reuters that governments should implement past climate deals rather than negotiate new ones, as Brasilia published energy-transition and deforestation roadmaps.
- New headline Was: “Brazil publishes first global ‘roadmap’ for phasing out fossil fuels”
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Brazil is closing its year as president of the U.N. climate process with two roadmaps — on shifting away from fossil fuels and on curbing deforestation — that COP30 President Andre Correa do Lago said should help governments carry out earlier climate agreements rather than open new talks.
Correa do Lago, who led last November's COP30 summit in Belem, told Reuters that finance, infrastructure and transportation ministers need to be involved if climate goals are to be built into policy.
He said governments do not need more negotiations and should start taking action.
In Belem, Brazil tried to lock in an energy-transition roadmap after more than 100 countries agreed at COP28 in Dubai in 2023 to triple renewable capacity by 2030, but oil-producing countries blocked consensus despite European support.
The published roadmap would have countries assess energy systems, rules and national transition plans through 2028, ahead of the second Global Stocktake; push infrastructure and renewable investment by 2030; and accelerate fossil-fuel replacement from 2031 to 2033.
The International Renewable Energy Agency put global renewable capacity at a record 5,149 gigawatts at the end of 2025, up 692 GW in a year, while Brazil's text notes much of that growth met new demand rather than replacing fossil fuels.
A deforestation roadmap also stayed out of the COP30 final deal over how to pay for forest protection; UNEP says annual forest finance needs to rise from $84.5 billion in 2023 to more than $300 billion by 2030, with most of today's money coming from national budgets in forested developing countries.
Brazil's Tropical Forests Forever Facility, which would pay countries that keep forests standing from a sovereign fund's returns, had $7.6 billion of a $10 billion target by the end of COP30, Correa do Lago said.
COP31 is due to open in Antalya, Turkey, on Nov. 9, with host minister Murat Kurum having told the U.N. in September that the agenda would also stress implementation over new pledges.
A U.N. report last month found the Paris 1.5C limit increasingly out of reach.
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