Mixed response to Cop30 ‘compromise’ as Brazil vows to press for progress

This year’s United Nations climate talks have ended with a compromise that some have criticised as weak while others called it progress.

After two weeks of negotiations, the deal finalised at Cop30 pledges more money to help countries adapt to climate change, but lacks explicit plans to transition away from the fossil fuels such as oil, coal and gas that heat the planet.

The conference did not do as much as scientists thought the world needed, it was not as meaningful as activists and Indigenous people demanded, and few countries got everything they wanted.

But that disappointment is mixed with a few wins and the hope for countries to make more progress next year.

The deal, which was approved after negotiators blew past a Friday deadline, was crafted after hours of late night and early