BELÉM, Brazil — The EU is preparing to veto the final deal at this year’s climate summit if countries do not agree to stronger efforts to cut planet-warming emissions, according to four European diplomats.
The negotiators said the 27 countries were united in their anger at the draft deal that the COP30 talks’ Brazilian presidency offered Friday morning, saying it had crossed the bloc’s red lines on financing and did not reflect their push for countries to do more to slash pollution.
The European Commission took the unusual step of publishing a short speech that climate chief Wopke Hoekstra gave in a closed-door meeting at noon local time Friday.
The current draft deal contains “no science… no transitioning away [from fossil fuels]… But instead, weakness,” Hoekstra said. “Under no circumstances are we going to accept this. … You can count on us to do our absolute utmost to deliver. Not for the EU. But for all of us.”
