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VaticanNews portal reports on the conclusion of COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, lamenting the failure to secure fossil fuel phase-out commitments. Professor John Sweeney, described as “emeritus climatologist from Maynooth University,” decries the “collapse of ambitions” and US-Saudi Arabian interference that removed fossil fuel references from the final text. The article portrays multilateral climate negotiations as increasingly paralyzed, with oil-producing nations allegedly holding the process hostage through COP’s unanimity rule. Sweeney maintains the process remains vital for vulnerable nations while admitting current structures cannot prevent exceeding 1.5°C warming targets. The portal frames climate change as requiring global cooperation but concludes with despair about political leadership’s capacity to address the crisis.