Countries attending COP30, the biggest climate meeting of the year, have agreed to a compromise deal setting out steps to help speed up climate action.

The deal would boost finance for poor nations coping with global warming, but it fails to namecheck the fossil fuels driving it.

As the United Nations summit wrapped up in Brazil, applause masked disappointment in the many weak parts of the agreement.

But what many were celebrating was that they'd agreed on anything at all - with countries around the world distracted by conflict and the cost of living, and the United States missing from the talks altogether.

The outlook for COP30 was bleak after two other similar forums this year - on green shipping and plastics pollution - fell apart entirely.

UK energy secretary Ed Miliband told Sky News in the Amazon city Belem: "Donald Trump and the United States withdrew from the Paris climate agreement.

"Some people said that means lots of countries are going to [pull out] as well, a domino effect. That hasn't happened."

In the text of the draft deal, instead of a transition plan away from fossil fuels, the agreement "acknowledges that the global transition toward low greenhouse gas emissions and climate-resilient development is irreversible and the trend of the future," and says "the (2015) Paris Agreement is working and resolves to go further and faster."

The UN secretary general Antonio Guterres said the deal shows "nations can still come together to confront the defining challenges no country can solve alone".

But he added: "I cannot pretend that COP30 has delivered everything that is needed. The gap between where we are and what science demands remains dangerously wide."

Despite no transition plan being included in the deal, the summit's president Andre Correa do Lago said voluntary plans on fossil fuels and forests would be mapped out instead - with applause for hardline Colombia, who will host a summit on the latter next year.

The annual United Nations conference brings together world leaders, scientists, campaigners, and negotiators from across the globe, who agree on collective next steps for tackling climate change.

The two-week conference in the Amazon city of Belem was due to end at 6pm local time (9pm UK time) on Friday, but it dragged well into overtime, as is common for COP talks.

The standoff was between the EU, which pressed for language on transitioning away from fossil fuels, and the Arab Group of nations, including major oil exporter Saudi Arabia, which opposed it.

The impasse was resolved following all-night talks led by Brazil, negotiators said.

The European Union's climate commissioner Wopke Hoekstra said on Saturday that the proposed accord was acceptable, even though the bloc would have liked more.

"We should support it because at least it is going in the right direction," he said.

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Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and about 80 countries, including the UK and coal-rich Colombia, had been pushing for a plan on how to "transition away from fossil fuels".

This is a pledge all countries agreed to two years ago at COP28 - then did very little about since.

But scores of countries - including major oil and gas producers like Saudi Arabia and Russia - see this push as too prescriptive or a threat to their economies.