Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at divisions at COP30 surrounding fossil fuels, Israeli settler violence in the West Bank , and a massive attack on a Nigerian boarding school.
Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at divisions at COP30 surrounding fossil fuels, Israeli settler violence in the West Bank, and a massive attack on a Nigerian boarding school.
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No Consensus
Only a few hours remain before the two-week United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) draws to a close. But it appears that the summit may end without a deal, as one issue continues to carve divisions among the event’s 194 delegates.
Early Friday, COP30 host Brazil unveiled an edited draft agreement that contains no mention of fossil fuels, the world’s largest contributor to global warming. The new version marks a significant break from the text’s previous iterations, which included three possible avenues for countries to reach net-zero carbon emissions.
The omission triggered fierce backlash from dozens of countries, which argued that not addressing fossil fuels undermines the urgency needed to keep global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius (about 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels, whic
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