Reaction to the COP30 agreement ranges from deep disappointment to qualified support.
The issue that is causing most frustration and even some outrage is the absence of a clear commitment to phase out fossil fuels, the main driver of climate change.
A majority of delegates, including the EU and South American countries were calling for a clear road map setting out how long it will take for the world to end the use of fossil fuels and transition to clean fuels.
Oil producing states, including a block of Arab countries and Russia and India objected.
The COP process is built around consensus and unanimity so the fossil fuel commitments were watered down.
This outraged some delegates.
Head of International Affairs for the Colombian Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, Daniela Duran Gonzalez told COP30 President André Corrêa do Lago: "Denying the best available science requires us not only to put the climate regime at risk, but also our own existence.
"Which message are we sending the world, Mr President?"
Others saw the final text as a lifeline for the Paris Agreement commitment to keep the rise of global temperature below 1.5C.
The UK’s Secretary of State Ed Miliband said: "I would have preferred a more ambitious agreement but at a time of great political challenge, when you’ve got America for example that has left the Paris Agreement, I think this is a significant moment that a 190 plus have recommitted to the Paris Agreement, recommitted to tackling the climate crisis, recommitted to keeping that key temperature goal of 1.5C."
The EU representative, EU Commissioner for Climate, Net Zero and Clean Growth, Wopke Hoekstra emphasised the agreement to triple climate adaptation funding for poorer countries.
"We should support it because it at least goes in the right direction," he said.
"Because it is very clear that we should stand shoulder to shoulder with our friends from the poorest nations and what we are doing is making a very significant step forward in terms of helping them out, in terms of finance adaptation."
Promised financing remains woefully inadequate - charities
Others say the promised financing for adaptation remains woefully inadequate.
Sinéad Loughran, a Climate Justice Policy and Advocacy Advisor with Trócaire spoke to RTÉ News from Belem.
"This was supposed to be an adaptation COP," she said.
"What we are left with in the end, was vague commitments, made to to address what is ultimately a huge gap in adaptation finance that is crucial for climate vulnerable countries, and what we have will barely scratch the surface of what is owed to those climate vulnerable countries and communities."
One part of the agreement that has been welcomed widely is the section on 'Just Transition'.
ActionAid Ireland was among the NGOs welcoming that commitment.
CEO Karol Balfe said : "COP30 in Belem has gifted the world with a major legacy, a new mechanism on just transition."
"It’s a huge win ensuring climate action also protects jobs and makes lives better," said Ms Balfe.
"Amid growing economic insecurity and climate skepticism, this is exactly the signal needed to get the planet back on track to addressing this global crisis.
"It can offer real support to countries so that they can better tackle knotty issues such as the transition away from fossil fuels."
Amnesty International said this section was a triumph of people power over the influence of fossil fuel lobbyists, something campaigners have long railed against at COP meetings.
Ann Harrison, Climate Justice Advisor for the group said: "It was instrumental in achieving a commitment to develop a just transition mechanism that will streamline and coordinate ongoing and future efforts to protect the rights of workers, other individuals and communities affected by fossil fuel phase out."
"We salute all those whose voices and actions led to this successful outcome and will be pushing for human rights, including of Indigenous peoples, to be respected and protected as the mechanism is developed."
Bio Economy Challenge launched
A less heralded development at Belem was launch of the Bio Economy Challenge by the Brazilian government.
The Bio Economic model uses renewable resources including animal and plant products, biomass and organic byproducts and reduces waste.
Brazil says it set the challenge as a framework to translate principles into actions.
It also wants to keep the momentum built up by G20 summits in Brazil and South Africa as the United States takes over hosting of the G20.
Those working in this sector say the Bio Economy Challenge is an example of how progress at COP meetings is not limited to the agreement announced at the end of the plenary session.
Johanna O’Malley, Partnerships Manager at Nature Finance told RTÉ News progress on the Bio Economy will bring real benefits to communities.
"That also means regenerative agriculture, making your agriculture more sustainable in the face of extreme weather conditions like flooding, like nature, shocks like that, moving away from pesticides in a way that's more sustainable, that let's people continue these practices in a sustainable way for decades to come, in a way that's just more resilient overall and less harmful to the planet."
