Negotiations at COP30 climate talks in Brazil ran into overtime on Saturday with no agreement struck and delegates still locked in a bitter fight over whether to mention fossil fuels in the final text.

The conference in the Amazonian city of Belem was supposed to wrap up on Friday evening at 6:00 pm (2100 GMT) but with no agreement finalized, the summit would spill over into the weekend.

Starting around 5:00pm (2000 GMT) delegates representing different sparring nations met for closed-door discussions that ran late into the night.

The discussions focused on minor adjustments to the three main contentious points, multiple observers and delegates told AFP. Those included the ambition to reduce fossil fuel consumption, the amount of financial aid owed by developed countries, and tensions o

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