"Brazil's environment minister, Marina Silva, has urged all countries to have the courage to address the need for a fossil fuel phaseout, calling the drawing up of a roadmap for it an ethical response to the climate crisis. She emphasised, however, that the process would be voluntary for those governments that wished to participate, and self-determined. The issue is one of the most controversial at the Cop30 summit in Brazil, with countries fighting over whether and how such a roadmap can be discussed."
"Silva spoke approvingly of the potential for a roadmap, without explicitly committing Brazil to it. She said: When we have a terrain or environment that is quite grim, it is good that we have a map. But the map does not force us to travel, or to climb. In an exclusive interview with the Guardian, she added: The map is an answer to our scientific knowledge [of the climate crisis]. It is an ethical answer."
Brazil's environment minister Marina Silva urged all countries to consider creating voluntary, self-determined roadmaps for phasing out fossil fuels and called such roadmaps an ethical response to the climate crisis. She framed a roadmap as a tool informed by scientific knowledge that offers guidance without imposing action. The proposal is highly contentious at Cop30 in Belem, with debates over whether and how to place the roadmap on the formal agenda. Brazil, as host, is maintaining neutrality while allowing discussion of the issue outside the formal agenda. Past efforts to elaborate a global transition were blocked by oil- and gas-dependent countries.
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