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.

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

It’s been a dramatic fortnight at the COP climate summit in the Amazonian city of Belem, with torrential rains and floods, protests and even a fire. A deal has finally been done but it’s divisive and has left many wondering whether we'll really avoid the worst effects of a warming world.

The final text of a proposed deal would be a disappointment for European countries and low-lying Pacific island nations.

Brazil’s COP30 presidency pushed through a compromise climate deal on Saturday last week that would boost finance for poor nations coping with global warming but that omitted any mention of the fossil fuels driving it.

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.

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,

Two weeks ago, heads of state, foreign ministers, senior diplomats and CEO’s from 140 countries around the globe (minus the United States) met in Belem, Brazil for the #COP30 United Nations climate summit at which leaders renewed their commitment to the 2015 Paris climate agreement in support of policies to hold average

Many of the activists, scientists and government leaders at United Nations climate talks underway in Brazil have a beef: They want more to be done to transform the world’s food system.

The final agreement, with no direct mention of the fossil fuels dangerously heating Earth, was a victory for countries like Saudi Arabia and Russia, diplomats said.