COP30 negotiated efforts to protect forests and ramp up financial packages for climate action, but with one glaring omission: a roadmap to cut fossil fuels.

Despite the weak agreement seen at the COP30 climate conference, Brazil was right to prioritize discussing the eventual phase-out of fossil fuels. Others must now help to find a way forward.

A bid by host nation Brazil to establish a "road map" for the world's phaseout of fossil fuels did not materialize ...