COP30 Climate Summit Ends with 'Roadmap,' but No Vow, to End Fossil Fuels

The United Nations COP30 climate summit ended this weekend with the publication of a declaration calling for a mutirão , or “collective effort,” to prevent climate disaster. Few specifics were offered on how exactly to do so.

The declaration suggested that the world’s nations should triple their spending on the “climate crisis” in the next decade, used suggested “voluntary indicators” to track their environmental progress, and participate in the launch of the “Global Implementation Accelerator,” intended to speed up the transition away from fossil fuels in unspecified ways.

Radical green activists lamented the failure to explicitly declare an ending deadline for the use of fossil fuels and mandate dramatic increases in governments’ expenses on climate activism, echoing the disappointm