COP30 deal in jeopardy as nations clash over fossil fuels

Negotiators scrambled Friday to salvageUNclimate talks inBrazilas oil-producing nations were accused of resisting any reference to a fossil fuel phaseout in the final deal.

After nearly two weeks of negotiations in the Amazonian city of Belem, a new draft agreement unveiled byCOP30host Brazil made no mention of "fossil fuels" or the word "roadmap" that PresidentLuiz Inacio Lula da Silvahad himself publicly suppor