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EU leads isolated group of countries pushing for global climate action

‘Axis of obstruction’ stalls progress with poor and middle-income countries reluctant to quit fossil fuels despite peril

The EU and a handful of other countries have been left unusually isolated as they push for action to tackle global warming, after geopolitical schisms spilled into climate policies at the UN COP30 summit in Brazil.

The meeting of 194 countries for more than two weeks in the tropical temperatures of the city of Belém nearly ended in collapse on Saturday when the EU warned of the possibility of a “no deal”. Countries such as the UK considered walking out.

Their efforts to directly reference fossil fuels or ambitious climate action language in a final agreement were blocked again and again by countries led by Saudi Arabia and Russia.

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