{"id":36441,"date":"2025-06-28T19:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T17:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=36441"},"modified":"2025-06-28T19:57:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T17:57:41","slug":"brazilian-environment-minister-proposes-plan-to-phase-out-fossil-fuels-at-cop30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2025\/06\/28\/brazilian-environment-minister-proposes-plan-to-phase-out-fossil-fuels-at-cop30\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil's environment minister proposes plan to end fossil fuels at COP30"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brazilian Environment Minister Marina Silva has proposed that this year's COP30 climate summit, to be held in Bel\u00e9m, lead to the creation of a a roadmap for a \u201cplanned and just transition\u201d to end the use of fossil fuels<\/strong>This She presented the proposal during a press conference in London on the sidelines of London Climate Action Week.<\/p>\n

The idea comes as negotiations on emissions reductions in Bonn, where countries meet for the UN\u2019s biannual climate talks, have been dogged by disagreements. Silva\u2019s proposal is seen as a way to move forward with a key promise of the 2023 \u201cDubai Agreement,\u201d which committed to transitioning energy systems away from fossil fuels. While countries were due to present new national climate plans by September this year, negotiations at COP29 and later in Bonn have made little progress, putting the Dubai pledges at risk.<\/p>\n

Marina Silva suggests that COP30 could lead to a \u201cmandate group\u201d to outline this transition roadmap. She stressed that "The worst possible thing would be if we didn't plan for this transition"<\/strong>This planned transition would not only involve ending fossil fuels, but also achieving the goal of halting deforestation by 2030, which is also part of the Dubai Agreement. The minister noted: \u201cWe are creating a roadmap to reach $1.3 trillion [in climate finance], so let\u2019s plan to end fossil fuels and end deforestation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although Brazil has already indicated a solution for a just transition away from fossil fuels in its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) of November last year, This is the first time a high-ranking minister has explicitly advocated discussing such a plan at COP30.<\/strong>. Silva, a close ally of President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva, said the original Dubai fossil fuel deal had assumed that developed countries should lead and developing countries should follow in reducing both production and consumption. She added that \u201cwars\u201d had changed the circumstances, although she did not provide further details. Silva stressed that "The big challenge of COP30 is to ensure that this commitment does not have any practical consequences"<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The situation is urgent because Jennifer Morgan, one of the architects of the landmark Dubai Agreement, warned that COP28 progress is \u201cat risk\u201d unless commitments are met more quickly<\/strong>At previous climate conferences, including last year\u2019s COP on biodiversity in Colombia and COP29, governments have repeatedly failed to explicitly pledge to transition away from fossil fuels, leading to concerns about meaningful progress. Brazil\u2019s proposal therefore comes at a crucial moment, seeking to offer a concrete path forward for global climate efforts. Spring<\/strong><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brazilian Environment Minister Marina Silva has proposed that this year's COP30 climate summit, to be held in Bel\u00e9m, should lead to the creation of a roadmap for a "planned and just transition" to end the use of fossil fuels. This<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cop28-cop29-cop30-cop31"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}