United Nations climate talks in Brazil reached a subdued agreement Saturday to deliver more money to countries hit hardest by climate change to help them adapt to extreme weather’s wrath. But the agreement doesn’t include an explicit, detailed map to phase out fossil fuels or strengthen inadequate emissions-cutting plans.

The Brazilian hosts of the conference said they’d eventually come up with a road map to get away from fossil fuels, working with hardline Colombia, but it won’t have the same force as something approved at the United Nations conference called COP30.

The deal was approved Saturday after negotiators blew past a deadline to wrap up the previous day. The deal was crafted after more than 12 hours of late-night and early morning meetings in COP30 President André Corrêa do Lag

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