Brazil presented the COP30 climate summit with a deal in the early hours of Friday that omitted any reference to exiting fossil fuels amid stiff resistance from producing countries.

By Lisandra Paraguassu and Valerie Volcovici BELEM, Brazil (Reuters) -On the banks of the Guama River where the city of Belem presses up against the vast green Amazon, Brazil is pioneering an economic model designed to help locals profit from a healthy rainforest.

Brazilian officials running high-level United Nations climate talks are readying a preliminary agreement that ignores demands from about 80 nations to further develop plans to transition away from fossil fuels.

Brazil said it still expects to land a deal on some of the most contentious issues at the COP30 climate summit ahead of schedule, but conceded there were still wide gaps between countries on issues like fossil fuels.

Host country Brazil’s tactful guidance as host of the U.N. climate conference is raising hopes for ambitious action on fighting global warming as speeches continue from the high-level ministers in town.

This year's COP30 summit in Belem, Brazil, highlighted food, forests and land as key topics to be addressed. One sector that crosses across all these is agriculture, which is responsible for about one-third of global carbon emissions.

When someone attending one of Corrêa do Lago’s daily briefings told him there should be more opportunity for Indigenous peoples to be part of COP30, the veteran Brazilian climate diplomat answered by stating the Belém event had the highest number of accredited Indigenous representatives of any COP to date.

Brazil has offered several texts for this year’s last day of the U.N. climate talks but what was supposed to be nearly final proposals on key contentious issues failed to explicitly mention

Brazil’s decision to approve oil drilling exploration near the Amazon River has raised concerns over the future of the critical rainforest - Anadolu Ajansı