The UN's COP30 climate talks spilled into overtime on Saturday, with the European Union in a standoff with oil producers and emerging countries over its push for a renewed commitment to a fossil-fuel phaseout.

A closing plenary was scheduled for 1300 GMT in the Brazilian Amazon city of Belem, even as nations remained deadlocked after two weeks of negotiations that were supposed to end on Friday.

The EU warned that the summit could finish without a deal after host Brazil released a draft agreement on Friday that made no mention of "fossil fuels" or a "roadmap" that President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva had himself publicly championed.

After negotiating through the night, EU ministers were meeting on Saturday, but French ecological transition minister Monique Barbut said things were going "

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