To the wire: talks on the Mutirão text continued in an informal meeting of heads of delegations this afternoon, while technical negotiations on Article 6 were brought to a successful conclusion. Photos: UNFCCC
Day 11: 21 NOVEMBER 2025
The atmosphere in the Blue Zone remained somewhat tense late on Friday night as Parties wrangled over the content of the Mutirão text, in which the main contentious issues included Article 9.1 finance, the NDC gap, and trade.
We heard from observers that the EU and other groups are unhappy with the draft language on ambition and NDCs, while the African group has emphasised the need for more focus on means of implementation. Meanwhile, the Arab group and Like-Minded Developing Countries underlined their opposition to any language on fossil fuels.
The growing constituency calling for a roadmap to a fossil fuel phase-out also added to the tension. Colombia and the Netherlands announced during the day that they would host an international conference on the just transition away from fossil fuels next April.
While this isn't quite as emphatic as the 80-plus countries that signed up to a call for the COP30 talks to address a phase-out, it does underline the strength of feeling that's building. A group of Like-Minded Developing Countries and others had managed to remove any language on fossil fuels from the Mutirão text.
Given the entrenched views on all sides late into Friday, there remained a not-insignificant risk that the COP would end without an agreement, even though many technical agendas have been agreed, including on Article 6.
COP30 president André Corrêa do Lago called an informal plenary in the morning to issue an appeal for Parties to bridge the gaps. He spoke of the need to maintain the spirit of multilateralism, and made more than one reference to the absence of the world's largest economy from these talks.
He then immediately convened a meeting of Heads of Delegation, and that was the last we heard from the talks today.
Already some participants' thoughts have turned to COP31 which we now know will take place in Antalya, Türkiye, though the Presidency will be held by Australia. However, an anticipated announcement by Turkey was postponed amid what we heard were disagreements over the division of responsibilities.
Don't forget to register for our post-COP briefing webinars, which we'll hold on Tuesday November 23 at either 0900 CET or 1700 CET.
Speakers will include IETA President and CEO Dirk Forrister; International Policy Director Andrea Bonzanni; Policy analysts Pedro Venzon and Agustina Cundari; negotiators Simon Fellermeyer of Switzerland; Cristina Figueroa Vargas of Chile; Martina Pittella of Brazil; as well as Audrey Goldstein of Standard Chartered; Malek AlChalabi of Shell, and Ben Rattenbury of Sylvera.
As the scheduled deadline neared, COP30 president André Corrêa do Lago urged Parties to bridge their differences over Brazil's headline Mutirão text. Photo: COP30.
In the negotiations
Parties met this morning in an informal setting to discuss the most recent draft texts – which we shared with you yesterday.
Our observers report that the texts for Article 6.2, Article 6.4 and the guidance relating to the clean development mechanism were all approved by negotiators without any further changes, and the drafts were forwarded to the Presidency for adoption in the CMA plenary.
The final texts are here:
Article 6.2
Article 6.4
Article 6.8
The LIke-Minded Developing Countries group proposed some small tweaks to the 6.4 text in the meeting, and there were no objections. The text as agreed today does not reopen past decisions or give the Supervisory Body any new mandate.
The negotiations on guidance to the clean development mechanism were also completed, with a draft text sent to the Presidency for adoption by the CMP.
The CDM text sets a final deadline for the request for issuance of CERs at June 30, 2026, and a deadline for transfer of CERs to Article 6.4 of December 31, 2026.
The text further instructs the CDM executive board to cease all its main operations as of December 31, 2026.
in addition, the decision requests the secretariat to transfer US$26.8 million from the CDM trust fund for the to the Article 6.4 trust fund "with the aim of maximising the long-term benefit for the Adaptation Fund."
From IETA's perspective, the closure of CDM is long overdue. The agreed financial transfer from the CDM Trust Fund will provide “operational capital” to the Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism until it becomes self-funding, which the decision text aims for in 2035.
We will unpack the decision texts during our post-COP webinars next Tuesday.
