Further tense exchanges between Panama, India and others…and then noting no objections (even though there have literally been objections), Presidency moves forward.

Plenary resumes and Russia (speaking in Spanish) calls out Latin American countries and says there was time for dissent and (condescendingly) tells these countries to “stop behaving like children.”

Sierra Leone lament that the 78 experts working on adaptation indicators were ignored. The GGA list does not tell their story. We leave COP30 with indicators that are unclear, unmeasurable and unusable.

Panama expresses "extreme disappointment" at their flag and request to be recognized went ignored. The process lacked due process.

TL;DR so far: weak decisions gaveled through with no discussion. Brazilian Presidency announces 2 new roadmaps - 1.) phaseout of fossil fuels - conference in Colombia 2026 2.) end of deforestation.

🌍 IN SUM: Multilateral ambition is weaker than the situation demands. The absence of a fossil-fuel phase-out roadmap, the weakened adaptation timeline, and the voluntary rather than binding implementation mechanism combine to signal a retreat from the urgency required to meet the 1.5 °C goal.

🔍 Finance structure remains vague and minimal - the draft reiterates the need to ramp up support for adaptation and implementation, but lacks clarity on numbers, sources (public vs private), timelines, and conditionality tied to just transition or fossil-fuel reduction.

🚀 New “Global Implementation Accelerator” created in lieu of stronger commitments...but without a robust mechanism for sharply scaling down fossil-fuel production or removing subsidies.

📆 Adaptation finance goal pushed back. While the draft “calls for” tripling adaptation finance compared to 2025 levels, the timeline has been stretched to 2035 rather than 2030

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