India, Nov. 20 -- The Brazilian COP30 Presidency is sprinting. It is now implementing a new dynamic in negotiations, to bring parties to agree on the most contentious, political texts by the middle of the week. Normally, COP decisions happen late in the week, with extension by a day or two being the norm.

New iterations of several texts - the cover text or the Mutirao text (collective effort), on adaptation, just transition, mitigation, etc., - were to be released later Wednesday at the time of this writing, and were to be agreed upon the same night, according to officials. Belem is 8.5 hours behind IST.

This follows a hectic Tuesday night when negotiators stayed up, thrashing out their differences.

Brazilian President, Luiz Inacio Lul...