The outcome of Brazil's COP30 climate summit has been left hanging in the balance, with the European Union refusing to accept a draft deal it said would fail to advance global efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change.

The two-week conference being held in the Amazon city of Belem had been scheduled to end Friday evening, local time (Saturday morning AEDT), but blew past that deadline as negotiations continued late into the night.

Brazil has cast the summit as a make-or-break moment for global climate co-operation, urging nations to bridge divides on issues including the future of fossil fuels and to send a message that concerted global action is the best way forward.

"This cannot be an agenda that divides us," COP30 president André Corrêa do Lago told delegates in

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