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COP30's bitter compromise: aid for adaptation tripled, no fossil fuel plan

As the climate talks ran into overtime, European nations and allies battled Saudi Arabia, Russia and other oil producers.

COP30 delegates holding informal consultations.
COP30 delegates holding informal consultations. (AN/©U.N. Climate Change/Kiara Worth)

The world agreed to give more aid for developing nations to adapt to climate change without delivering a plan to deal with the root cause.

The COP30 U.N. climate summit in Belém, Brazil, concluded on Saturday in a tense political compromise. Negotiators agreed to triple adaptation finance for vulnerable nations but backtracked on a binding roadmap to phase out fossil fuels, drawing condemnation from dozens of countries.

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