The negotiations at the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém have now exceeded the official deadline of 6:00 p.m. Brazilian time on Friday.
The world's countries will therefore continue their discussions in delayed overtime, which could drag on well into the weekend because they are so far from agreement.
As time goes on, the fear of a flop is growing from several fronts.
The Colombian delegation, which is among the countries leading the fight for CO2 reductions, believes that the presidency's draft agreement is far too unambitious.
- If it stays like this, it will be a failure, says Irene Velez Torres, Minister of the Environment in Colombia, to Ritzau.
The Brazilian presidency released the latest draft agreement on Friday night, but after a full day of negotiations, no visible progress has been made, reports Irene Velez Torres.
Together with a coalition of over 80 countries including Denmark and the EU, she is working to ensure that the climate summit can agree on a path away from fossil fuels.
The draft agreement does not include this, as the summit is running into overtime.
- They are trying to erase the big elephant in the room, which is the need to phase out fossil fuels, says the Colombian environment minister.
The Brazilian hosts have made big speeches with green slogans, but they are yet to take it seriously, it is said.
- There is no clear delivery. The text says that we must be ambitious, but these are empty words if we do not put action behind them.
The EU is also deeply frustrated, and Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra has warned that Europeans are ready to go home without an agreement if CO2 reductions are not included in the agreement.
- What is on the table is unacceptable, and we are so far from where we should be that we unfortunately have to say that we are looking at a "no deal" scenario, he told Ritzau earlier on Friday.
While the official deadline is being exceeded, Danish Climate Minister Lars Aagaard is sitting on behalf of the EU presidency in negotiations with the Brazilian presidency and representatives from the world's other major groups.
Here, an attempt is being made to forge a compromise that can satisfy the parties.
After this, the climate summit awaits the Brazilians are preparing a new proposal for an agreement text.
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