Brazil failed to land an early COP30 climate deal on Wednesday, though President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva remained upbeat about the prospects of progress in the last two days of the summit despite differences between nations on key issues. The Brazilian hosts of the two-week U.N. summit in the Amazonian city of Belem had hoped to secure approval for a deal covering some of the most divisive issues in the global climate talks, including fossil fuels and climate finance.

Lula spent the day meeting delegations from key negotiating blocs to hash out a deal. "I am so happy that I leave here certain that my negotiators will have the best result a COP could have ever offered to the Planet Earth," he told reporters after the meetings, referring to the acronym for the climate meetings known forma

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