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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Fiona Harvey and Jonathan Watts in Belém

More than 80 countries at Cop30 join call for roadmap to fossil fuel phase-out

Ed Miliband speaks next to Tina Stege of the Marshall Islands and other countries’ representatives
Ed Miliband speaks next to Tina Stege of the Marshall Islands, with other representatives. Photograph: Adriano Machado/Reuters

More than 80 countries have joined a call for a roadmap to phasing out fossil fuels, in a dramatic intervention into stuck negotiations at the UN Cop30 climate summit.

Countries from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Pacific joined with EU member states and the UK to make an impassioned plea for the “transition away from fossil fuels” to be a central outcome of the talks, despite stiff opposition from petrostates and some other major economies.

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