In Outrageous Omission, New Cop30 Deal Fails to Restrict Fossil Fuels

Photo: André Corrêa do Lago at COP30 in Belém (Nov 15, 2025). Photo credit: Xuthoria via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0 (photo was cropped). Article by Alexia Underwood. The New Republic – November 22, 2025.

Cop30, the U.N.’s annual climate summit that the U.S. failed to send a delegate to this year, nonetheless achieved something President Donald Trump would celebrate. Delegates in Brazil reported that they had reached a tentative deal on Saturday, and while some important concessions were made, the final agreement doesn’t include a path away from fossil fuels, the single largest driver of global warming and man-made climate change. […]

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