André Corrêa do Lago: ‘Roadmap’ will be an initiative of the COP presidency and there is an agreement on financing
Authors: Alice Martins Morais and Daniel Nardin.
Edited by: Natália Mello
In an exclusive interview with Amazônia Vox, COP30 President André Corrêa do Lago revealed that the roadmap away from fossil fuels, requested by Lula at the Leaders’ Summit and endorsed by more than 80 countries, was left out of the final COP30 document. According to Lago, this proposal was not lost, but will be presented separately by Brazil, which should be worked on in parallel in the coming months.
After hours of negotiation, around 8:20 am on Saturday (22), after an entire night in meetings with delegations, André left the COP presidency secretariat room with a happy expression. In the exclusive interview, he reported:
“What comes in, on the other hand, is financing and adaptation, other key topics of this conference. After an intense night and early morning of negotiations, the results should be presented in plenary from 10:30 am on Saturday (22). I think we will have approval of many documents around 10:30 am. It is now 8:10 am and we have been in the room since dawn, but I think that a result, if we manage to get 195 countries to agree with the amount of documents that we approved, I think we will take a while to explain everything that was done, but I think it was very good and the countries collaborated a great deal. We will announce the Roadmap, it will be an initiative of the Brazilian presidency, and we still have eleven months to go through it” [exclusive interview with the executive director of Amazônia Vox, Daniel Nardin].
Evans Davie Njewa, delegate from Malawi, also revealed that a “neutral package” was agreed upon, highlighting the commitment to send funding for operations until 2035 and the need for collaboration to increase the ambition of the mediation, aiming to achieve stability at 1.5%. Furthermore, according to him, they agreed to improve cooperation on trade issues related to the process, including measures raised by the United States and other countries.
Expectations for the final text
In the previous version of the texts, the roadmap away from fossil fuels had already disappeared, as well as another “roadmap” requested by Lula for the end of deforestation. This erasure of the agendas provoked reactions from scientists, negotiators and environmentalists.
Countries such as Colombia, Panama and members of the European Union (EU) reacted to the “emptying” of these agendas. According to Daisy Dunne, associate editor of Carbon Brief, 92 countries are supporting the call for a deforestation roadmap at this COP, including the EU and a group of more than 50 tropical forest nations, the “Coalition of Tropical Forest Nations” (CfRN). If the information is confirmed, the number would be even higher than the list of 82 countries that expressed support for the fossil fuel roadmap earlier this week. For Carolina Pasquali, executive director of Greenpeace Brazil, the most important thing was not to have a quick result, but an ambitious one: “There is still time. Today, we should not rush to finalize the COP, but rather to do what is necessary to make it successful,” she declared on Friday.
What was included in this draft on Friday (21), on the other hand, were the adaptation indicators – broadly speaking, these are metrics to monitor the progress of actions to reduce vulnerability to the impacts of climate change. The draft document package presented 59 indicators. “We were really hoping that the indicators would come to this COP, and they did. This was one of the major obstacles in the negotiations,” explains Lygia Nassar, deputy director and manager of sustainability and projects at the City Laboratory.
For her, from the perspective of a developing country, having these indicators is fundamental to having the technical capacity to implement climate adaptation actions. “In the text, we have linked that developed countries will have this transfer of financial resources to developing countries, in addition to the transfer of technical capacity and technology transfer. This is indicated in the text; we need to wait to understand if it will be maintained or not,” analyzes Lygia, who also participates in the COP30 Committee.
According to the manager of the City Laboratory, the main objective of adaptation is the reduction of vulnerability, understanding national contexts and socioeconomic demographic characteristics – which is incorporated into the current proposal. “We haven’t yet been able to conduct a very in-depth assessment of each indicator, but they seem to be very broad, lacking depth. Therefore, the proposal is for a two-year cycle to refine the global adaptation targets,” he points out. Now, we must wait for news from the negotiations to know exactly what will or will not be included in the final document – and how.
— This report was produced by Amazônia Vox, through the Collaborative Socio-environmental Coverage of COP 30. Read the original report at: https://www.amazoniavox.com/noticias/view/556/Ultimas_horas_de_cop30_roadmap_fica_fora_mas_ha_avancos_em_financiamento_e_adaptacao?src=hh
