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Many delegates spent a good part of their day waiting, be it for political guidance to emerge from the ministerial and presidency-led consultations, for Parties to report on progress achieved in informal informals, or for new texts to emerge. As the hours passed, it became increasingly unlikely that Parties would manage to agree on any decisions, let alone on the most contentious issues, which the Presidency is trying to consolidate into a Mutirão decision.

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With few issues on the negotiations schedule, press conferences became a magnet of attention. Many were keen to hear about developments regarding a growing number of countries’ call to define some form of roadmap for fossil fuel phaseout. The European Union pointed to its own energy transition plans and underscored the need to implement the outcomes of the first Global Stocktake, calling this a “reasonable ask.”

In a high-level event on the Global Climate Action Agenda, COP 30 CEO Ana Toni emphasized the need for "coalition of the willing," including investors, subnational governments, and other stakeholders. The International Union for Conservation of Nature pointed to the motions on fossil fuel production recently adopted at its World Conservation Congress.

In another press conference, the Women and Gender Constituency emphasized the need to adopt an ambitious gender action plan in Belém, noting this is a key deliverable of the thirtieth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 30) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). They urged Parties to defend the plan’s intersectional perspective, references to women environmental and human rights defenders, attention to care work, and progress in terms of gender-disaggregated data.

In the afternoon, agreement was found in relation to cooperative non-market based approaches to implementing the Paris Agreement (Article 6.8), adding to the tally of draft decisions ready for adoption by the governing bodies. Informal informals on a host of other issues were set to convene through the evening.