After running a day overtime, delegates at COP30, the United Nations climate summit in Belém, Brazil, finally reached a deal on a final agreement, but one that falls well short of the high expectations held by many delegates, environmental groups and NGOs. Although more than 80 countries had pushed for a global roadmap to phase out fossil fuels, the main driver of human-caused climate change, that demand was ultimately left out of the final text. Liza Kaminov reports.























