Brazil World Climate Conference goes into extra time
The World Climate Conference in Brazil is going into extra time. By the scheduled end at 6 p.m. local time (10 p.m. CET), the 200 or so countries were unable to reach agreement on contentious issues. The negotiations continue. There is a particularly heated debate about whether a plan to phase out coal, oil and gas should be drawn up. More than 80 states - including Germany - are campaigning for this, but there is great resistance from the oil states, for example.
21.11.2025, 22:08
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In recent years, the UN climate summits have always gone into extra time. In Brazil, the negotiators lost an additional half day because the site had to be cleared in the meantime due to a fire.
Summit in a critical phase
The Brazilian presidency actually wanted to finish on time or at most "five to ten minutes" overrun. However, in the end, the summit no longer went according to plan: several rounds fell through because, according to observers, countries were not willing to talk. A final plenary session was delayed until the early evening.
Federal Environment Minister Carsten Schneider (SPD) expected "tough negotiations" a few hours before the planned end of the two-week meeting.
Germany and others reject draft text
A draft of possible resolutions published by the Brazilian conference leadership on Friday morning had caused a great deal of resentment. The EU, Germany and many other countries rejected it as unacceptable. Throughout the day, the ministers from around 200 countries exchanged views in large and small rounds. Brazil's task is to find a compromise between very conflicting positions. In the end, a unanimous vote must be taken in the plenary session.
Two years ago in Dubai, the global community had already agreed to move away from coal, oil and gas - now the task is to put this into concrete terms. Belém is also about financial support for poorer countries in adapting to global warming, i.e. the costs that would be incurred by industrialized countries. Here, too, the ideas of the country groups differ widely.
