Nations neared a deal at the UN climate summit Saturday after the EU accepted a text with only an implicit nod to phasing out fossil fuels following fraught negotiations with oil producers and emerging countries.

Nearly 200 nations had been holding talks for two weeks in the Brazilian Amazon city of Belem, with sleepless nights in the final days to produce a text that needs to pass by consensus.

The European Union and other nations had pushed for a deal that would call for a "roadmap" to phase out fossil fuels but the words do not appear in the text.

Instead, the draft calls on countries to "voluntarily" accelerate their climate action and recalls the consensus reached at COP28 in Dubai. That 2023 deal called for the world to transition away from fossil fuels.

The EU, which had warned

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