COP30 pledges funding to poor countries dealing with the effects of climate change
發佈日期: 2025-11-23 19:54
TVB News
Brazil's COP30 presidency has pushed through a compromise climate deal that would boost finance for poor nations coping with global warming but omitted any mention of the fossil fuels driving it.
In securing the accord, Brazil hoped to demonstrate global unity in addressing climate change impacts even after the world's biggest historic emitter, the United States, declined to send an official delegation.
The United Nations climate talks in Brazil reached a subdued agreement Saturday that pledged more funding for countries to adapt to the wrath of extreme weather.
But the catch-all agreement doesn't include explicit details to phase out fossil fuels or strengthen countries' inadequate emissions-cutting plans, which dozens of nations demanded.
Melina Walling, The Associated Press said: "Nations said they would triple the amount of money promised to help the most vulnerable countries adapt to climate change. But they would take five more years to do it. And the final document didn't explicitly say how to get away from fossil fuels."
Ed Miliband, UK Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero added: "I would have preferred that the transition away from fossil fuels had been in the document, but key countries objected to that. The way this works is a process of unanimity. Everybody has to agree. But what's also significant today is that there's enough in this agreement for Brazil to launch that key roadmap, on the transition away from fossil fuels which the COP president announced. These are difficult, strenuous, tiring, frustrating negotiations."
The UN's climate chief Simon Stiell said the new agreement reached would help keep humanity "in the fight for a liveable planet." He added there was a firm resolve to keep the 1.5 degrees Celsius target by the end of this century, agreed to in the Paris Agreement of 2015.
Steill also focused on the achievements of the 194 countries in attendance as opposed to the United States which chose not to attend.
Simon Stiell, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change said: 'Here in Belem nations chose unity, science and economic common sense. This year, there's been a lot of attention on one country stepping back. But amidst the gale-force political headwinds, 194 countries stood firm in solidarity, rock solid in the support of climate cooperation. 194 countries representing billions of people have said in one voice that the Paris agreement is working and resolved to make it go further and faster."
