a social media post<\/a> that while the outcome \u201cfell short of expectations\u201d, COP30 demonstrated the importance of multilateralism to tackle global challenges such as climate change.<\/p>\n\u2018Needed a giant leap\u2019<\/h2>\n
Countries had been divided on a number of issues in Belem, including a push to phase out fossil fuels \u2013 the largest drivers of the climate crisis \u2013 that drew opposition from oil-producing countries and nations that depend on oil, gas and coal.<\/p>\n
Questions of climate finance also sparked heated debates, with developing nations demanding that richer countries bear a greater share of the financial burden.<\/p>\n
But COP30 host Brazil had pushed for a show of unity, as the annual conference is largely viewed as a test of the world\u2019s resolve to address a deepening crisis.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to show society that we want this without imposing anything on anyone, without setting deadlines for each country to decide what it can do within its own time, within its own possibilities,\u201d Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said earlier this week.<\/p>\n
Speaking during Saturday afternoon\u2019s closing session in Belem, COP30 President Andre Aranha Correa do Lago acknowledged that several countries as well as civil society groups \u201chad greater ambitions for some of the issues at hand\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs President Lula said at the opening of this COP, we need roadmaps so that humanity \u2013 in a just and planned manner \u2013 can overcome its dependence on fossil fuels, halt and reverse deforestation and mobilise resources for these purposes,\u201d Correa do Lago said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI, as president of COP30, will therefore create two roadmaps: One on halting and reverting [reversing] deforestation and another to transitioning away from fossil fuels in a just, orderly and equitable manner,\u201d he said, spurring a round of applause from delegates.<\/p>\n
Correa do Lago also added that the first international conference on the phase-out of fossil fuels is scheduled to take place in Colombia in April.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Al Jazeera before the draft text was released, Asad Rehman, chief executive director of Friends of the Earth, said richer countries \u201chad to be dragged \u2013 really kicking and screaming \u2013 to the table\u201d at COP30.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey have tried to bully developing countries and have weakened the text \u2026 But I would say that, overall, from what we\u2019re hearing, we will have taken a step forward,\u201d Rehman said in an interview from Belem.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis will be welcomed by the millions of people for whom these talks are a matter of life and death. However, in the scale of the crisis that we face, we of course needed a giant leap forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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