{"id":141451,"date":"2025-11-25T17:42:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T22:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=141451"},"modified":"2025-11-25T18:46:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T23:46:26","slug":"church-times-christian-observers-at-cop30-call-for-renewed-efforts-after-financial-agreement-blocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=141451","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Christian observers at COP30 call for renewed efforts after financial agreement blocked"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The lack of progress from governments at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/cop-climate-talks\">COP30<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/climate-change\">climate<\/a>\u00a0talks in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/brazil\">Brazil<\/a>\u00a0has left vulnerable communities at risk, Christian observers attending the summit have warned. As the talks came to a close on Friday, they called for renewed efforts, outside the formal UN process, to accelerate the phase-out of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/environmentgreen-issues\">fossil fuels<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Climate campaigners have criticised wealthy countries for failing to deliver adequate financial support to help vulnerable countries with comparatively low emissions to adapt to climate change, and to fund the energy transition away from fossil fuels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With low levels of finance on the table, Saudi Arabia and other fossil-fuel producing countries were able to block agreement on a road map (supported by dozens of countries, including the UK) to move away from coal, oil, and gas. A plan to produce a road map was eventually proposed informally by the Brazilian COP President, Andr\u00e9 Corr\u00eaa do Lago, and will be picked up at a separate conference to be hosted next year by Colombia and the Netherlands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Patricia Mungcal, of the National Council of Churches in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/philippines\">Philippines<\/a>, said that a concrete plan to move away from fossil fuels would have been COP30\u2019s \u201cgift to humankind\u201d. She praised the countries which had fought for its inclusion, including the Colombian delegates who had delayed the final plenary for more than two hours in protest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2025\/28-november\/news\/world\/christian-observers-at-cop30-call-for-renewed-efforts-after-financial-agreement-blocked\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The lack of progress from governments at the COP30 climate talks in Brazil has left vulnerable communities at risk, Christian observers attending the summit have warned<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/climatechange?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#climatechange<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/cop30?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#cop30<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/brazil?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#brazil<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kFw3KxfioX\">https:\/\/t.co\/kFw3KxfioX<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Church Times (@ChurchTimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChurchTimes\/status\/1992940634466820170?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 24, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lack of progress from governments at the\u00a0COP30\u00a0climate\u00a0talks in\u00a0Brazil\u00a0has left vulnerable communities at risk, Christian observers attending the summit have warned. As the talks came to a close on Friday, they called for renewed efforts, outside the formal UN process,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=141451\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[683,140,168,119,108,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ecology","category-energy-natural-resources","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-globalization","category-religion-culture","category-stewardship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141451"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141456,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141451\/revisions\/141456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}