{"id":20288,"date":"2025-11-14T04:15:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T03:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/?p=20288"},"modified":"2025-11-14T14:04:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T13:04:55","slug":"der-brennende-punkt-von-belem-wie-die-welt-am-ausstieg-aus-den-fossilen-energien-zerbricht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/der-brennende-punkt-von-belem-wie-die-welt-am-ausstieg-aus-den-fossilen-energien-zerbricht\/","title":{"rendered":"The Burning Point of Bel\u00e9m \u2013 How the World Falters on Ending the Fossil Era"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bel\u00e9m, Brazil \u2013 These days, Bel\u00e9m is not only the gateway to the Amazon but the place where it will be decided whether the world is ready to take its own future seriously. Two years after the historic Dubai decision that for the first time wrote the global farewell to coal, oil and gas into a shared document, a broad group of states at COP30 is trying to force the next step. And for the first time in a long while, politics seems to show a spark of courage. The new momentum was unleashed by none other than Brazil\u2019s President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva, who set a clear and completely unexpected signal just days before the negotiations began. His call to \u201ctruly overcome\u201d global dependence on fossil fuels has strengthened countries from Europe, Africa, Latin America and the Pacific. France, Germany, Kenya and Colombia are driving the attempt behind the scenes to push the phaseout pathway into the official negotiation package \u2013 even though it is not formally on the agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is about more than words. The initiators want a consensus decision by all nearly 200 states, not a nonbinding paper from those already convinced. They now speak of a circle of 50 to 60 supporters \u2013 and they want to expand it to 100. Their goal is clear: to finally bring the historic 2023 formulation, the transition \u201cin a just, orderly and equitable manner,\u201d to life. Numbers, data, plans \u2013 something that can be reviewed. Something by which countries can be measured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Indigenous leaders and demonstrators occupy the Blue Zone of COP30<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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But every step forward casts an immediate shadow. Saudi Arabia is blocking without compromise, Russia mocks the idea as a luxury problem of wealthy nations, and in several negotiation rooms, oil-producing states are trying to keep any mention of fossil fuels out of new decisions. Around 70 countries are said to be opposed to going beyond the Dubai consensus at all. And Brazil\u2019s role as host is filled with contradictions of its own: just days before the summit began, the government gave the green light for a new oil project at the mouth of the Amazon River.<\/p>\n\n\n\n