Nations and environmental groups slam proposals at UN climate talks, calling them too weak
Source: Associated Press
By SETH BORENSTEIN, MELINA WALLING and ANTON L. DELGADO
Updated 12:24 PM EST, November 21, 2025
BELEM, Brazil (AP) — Several nations and environmental groups on Friday slammed proposals in the final stages of this year’s U.N. climate talks for failing to explicitly mention the cause of global warming — the burning of fuels such as oil, gas and coal — with one top negotiator warning the talks are on “the verge of collapse.”
Juan Carlos Monterrey Gomez, a top negotiator for Panama, said the decades-long United Nations process risks “becoming a clown show” for the omission. His nation was among 36 to object to a proposal drafted by conference president André Corrêa do Lago of host Brazil.
Do Lago countered by telling negotiators he thought the negotiators “are very close” to doing what they set out to do when they started meeting a week ago.
The Brazilian proposals came on what was supposed to be the last day of the talks, and on the heels of a fire on Thursday that briefly spread through pavilions of the conference known as COP30 on the edge of the Amazon. Thirteen people were treated for smoke inhalation. Though no one was seriously hurt, the fire meant a largely lost day for the talks and increased the likelihood they would sprawl into the weekend, as they frequently do.
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