44 minutes agoNew global climate agreement reached at COP26 summit
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(5 years ago)A new global climate agreement reached at the COP26 Summit, which is being held in Glasgoa, a deal intended to avoid dangerous climate changes has been reached at the COP26 summit in Glasgoa. The Glasgo Pact for Climate is the first climate agreement to effectively plan to reduce coal, the worst fossil fuel [...]
New global climate agreement reached at the COP26 Summit under way in Glasgow
An agreement intended to avoid dangerous climate changes has been reached at the COP26 summit in Glasgoa.
The Glasgo Pact for Climate is the first climate deal to effectively plan to reduce coal, the worst fossil fuel for greenhouse gases.
The deal also requires more urgent emissions cuts and promises more money for developing countries to help them adapt to climate impacts.
However, pledges do not go far enough to limit temperature growth of 1.5 degrees Celsius.
A pledge to gradually remove coal that was involved in previous draft negotiations led to a dramatic conclusion after India rejected it.
India Climate Minister Bhupender Yadova asked how developing countries could promise to gradually remove coal and fossil fuels subsidies, when they “still need to deal with their development agendas and the eradication of poverty”.
In the end, the countries agreed to “gradually” and not “gradually remove” coal amid disappointments from some, the BBC writes.
COP26 President Alk Sharma said he was sorry “extremely bad” about the way events turned out. But he said it was vital to protect the agreement as a whole.
