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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Damian Carrington, Oliver Milman, Jonathan Watts and Damien Gayle

UN warns world losing climate battle but fragile Cop30 deal keeps up the fight

Advisers stand around a seated André Corrêa do Lago
The Cop30 president, André Corrêa do Lago (centre), next to his advisers after the plenary session. The summit was bitterly contested. Photograph: Pablo Porciúncula/AFP/Getty Images

The world is not winning the fight against the climate crisis but it is still in that fight, the UN climate chief has said in Belém, Brazil, after a bitterly contested Cop30 reached a deal.

Countries at Cop30 failed to bring the curtain down on the fossil fuel age amid opposition from some countries led by Saudi Arabia, and they underdelivered on a flagship hope – at a conference held in the Amazon – to chart an end to deforestation.

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