COP30 host Brazil pushed Tuesday for an early breakthrough at UN climate talks, with nations weighing a proposed deal that seeks to bridge major differences on fossil fuels, finance and trade barriers.

Brazil wants an agreement reached by midweek, with President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to make an unexpected return to Belem on Wednesday in a high-level bid to seal a deal.

After announcing its fast-tracked timeline, negotiators spent a sleepless night producing a first draft on trade measures, demands for greater finance for poorer nations, and the inadequacy of national carbon-cutting pledges.

"As always in this phase of the negotiations, this is a mixed bag," EU climate chief Wopke Hoekstra told AFP in the corridors of the cavernous COP30 venue.

UK climate envoy Rachel Kyte said the

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