COP30 nears its end – what happens now?published at 13:53 GMT

13:53 GMT

Esme Stallard
Climate reporter

A plenary (final meeting) has been called which means we are nearing the end of COP30.

There are more than 50 different items still to be agreed and we have started to get the new draft texts on those.

The key one we are waiting for is the Mutirão text which contains the commitments (or not) on fossil fuels, finance, trade measures and emissions reporting.

The way the UN climate conferences work is the countries agree by consensus on the deals, there is no voting typically.

Countries will get a chance in the plenary to speak on whether they support or oppose the deal.

If there is consensus then the Brazilians, who are presiding over the talks as the host, will gavel them through.

If they don’t agree there may be more informal very last minute talks in the room or it could still fall apart.

But we are nearly 18 hours into overtime. If too many countries have to fly home we lose the critical number required to pass a deal.

So either way we should get a decision today.

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