The COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, came to an agreement Saturday, but the final document makes no mention of fossil fuels, the primary cause of global climate change.

Poorer nations at the Group of 20 summit in South Africa have urged world leaders to address climate action and debt issues affecting the developing world.

A bitter row over fossil fuels has broken out at the COP30 UN climate talks in Belém, Brazil, as the meeting formally runs over time. At the heart of the row is a disagreement over how strong a deal should be on working to reduce the world's use of fossil fuels, whose emissions are by far the largest contributor to climate change.

This week, the administration released a series of sweeping proposals to encourage oil drilling and roll back protections for wetlands and endangered species.

Many gave the deal lukewarm praise as the best that could be achieved in trying times, while others complained about the package or the process that led to its approval.

As COP30 brings cruise ships to the rainforest, the tensions between climate ideals and political realities echo far beyond Brazil.

Brazil insisted on hosting this year's COP30 climate summit in the Amazonian city of Belem to put rainforests at the heart of negotiations on how to curb global warming. But as delegates from almost every country concluded tense talks under the rainforest's humid heat,

Instead of being remembered as historic, the conference will likely further erode confidence in a process that many environmentalists and even some world leaders have argued isn’t up to the