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Brazil has stressed that each country would pursue its own course to "transition away from fossil fuels" - a pact made by all nations at a previous COP, in Dubai in 2023.Lula is presiding over the world's top climate negotiations just weeks after his government approved new oil drilling in the Amazon region.But Joao Paulo Capobianco, executive secretary of Brazil's Ministry of Environment, told AFP: "Brazil hopes that this issue of phasing out the use of fossil fuels will effectively be on the agenda," adding, "If we truly want to enforce this Dubai decision, we have to build the roadmap."Rwanda's environment minister, Bernadette Arakwiye, stressed to delegates that they face a stark choice."We can continue with incremental progress while the planet burns, or we can rise to meet the scale of this crisis," she said.
