COP30 fails to secure fossil fuel pledges
Newshour
BBC
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🗓️ 22 November 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Nearly 200 nations agree on a compromise deal on tackling climate change at the COP30 summit in Brazil - but without any commitment to phase out fossil fuels. We speak to Sierra Leone Minister of The Environment and Climate Change Jiwoh Abdulai, who represented the Least Developed Countries group on finance and transition talks.
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(Pictured: André Corrêa do Lago, COP30 president, sits as Simon Stiell, United Nations climate chief, left, speaks with other U.N. officials during a plenary session at the COP30 U.N. Climate Summit. Credit: AP Photo/Andre Penner)
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| 0:08.9 | Hello and welcome to Newsour from the BBC World Service coming live from London. |
| 0:14.3 | This is Owen Bennett-Jones. |
| 0:15.4 | And coming up later in the programme, we'll get the latest on the.S. Russian proposals for a ceasefire in Ukraine. |
| 0:21.7 | And we'll take a look at the politics of Marjorie Taylor Green. |
| 0:26.0 | I refuse to be a battered wife, hoping it all goes away and gets better. |
| 0:30.3 | We'll discuss what prompted the firebrand member of President Trump's MAGA movement to call it |
| 0:36.3 | quits. But we begin with the conference we've heard so much about over the last month, |
| 0:42.3 | the COP 30 Climate Change Summit in Brazil. |
| 0:45.7 | It's ended with a compromise. |
| 0:47.2 | There were cheers as the COP 30 president, Andre Correa Delago, announced that the agreement |
| 0:53.2 | on a framework to promote a collective understandings |
| 0:56.7 | in line with the Paris Agreement had been finalised. |
| 1:00.6 | United Arab Emirates Just Transition Work Programme contained in document CMA slash 2025 L.14. |
| 1:15.3 | Typically technical language coming out of COP 30. |
| 1:18.6 | Some, despite those cheers, were not all that happy. |
| 1:21.7 | Delegates did agree to boost finance for poor nations, |
| 1:25.0 | but one person there said they'd never seen so many people |
| 1:27.9 | so underwhelmed by so little progress at a cop. |
| 1:32.4 | One of the key issues was the role of fossil fuels in climate change, and there was no |
| 1:37.4 | consensus on that, so there was no explicit mention of fossil fuels in the final agreement. |
| 1:43.7 | It is being put into a so-called |
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