Brazil presented the COP30 climate summit with a deal in the early hours of Friday that omitted any reference to exiting fossil fuels amid stiff resistance from producing countries.

Brazil offered several texts on Friday morning for this year's last day of the U.N. climate talks but what was supposed to be nearly final proposals on key contentious issues failed to explicitly mention fossil fuels — the cause of global warming.

When someone attending one of Corrêa do Lago’s daily briefings told him there should be more opportunity for Indigenous peoples to be part of COP30, the veteran Brazilian climate diplomat answered by stating the Belém event had the highest number of accredited Indigenous representatives of any COP to date.

Brazil said it still expects to land a deal on some of the most contentious issues at the COP30 climate summit ahead of schedule, but conceded there were still wide gaps between countries on issues like fossil fuels.

Brazilian officials running high-level United Nations climate talks are readying a preliminary agreement that ignores demands from about 80 nations to further develop plans to transition away from fossil fuels.

A cultural change is badly needed to shake climate negotiations from its too-prevalent low ambition, say people of faith involved in the Global Ethical Stocktake.

On the banks of the Guama River where the city of Belem presses up against the vast green Amazon, Brazil is pioneering an economic model designed to help locals profit from a healthy rainforest.

A fire outbreak on Thursday has disrupted activities at the Blue zone axis of the ongoing United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) in Belém, Brazil, forcing the temporary closure of the Blue Zone where formal negotiations are taking place.

Two global power players pushed negotiators on Wednesday to find compromises at United Nations climate talks in Brazil's Belém, where a self-imposed deadline is rushing up fast.

Brazil’s decision to approve oil drilling exploration near the Amazon River has raised concerns over the future of the critical rainforest - Anadolu Ajansı