COP26 Recap

 

CNBC: China and India will have to explain themselves on coal, COP26 president says 

* The agreement, which is not legally binding, was amended at the eleventh hour after interventions from India and China — both among the world’s biggest burners of coal. 

* This led to a change in language about fossil fuels; the pact now refers to the “phase down” of coal, rather than the “phase out” of coal, as originally proposed. 

* There are fears that a more drastic rise in temperatures will disproportionately affect vulnerable populations such as the world’s small island nations which are already being inundated by rising sea levels. 

The president of COP26 said Sunday that China and India will need to explain why they insisted a crucial passage of the U.N.-brokered climate deal was changed at the last minute. 

“China and India are going to have to explain themselves to the most climate vulnerable countries in the world,” U.K. lawmaker Alok Sharma, who led the COP26 negotiations, told the BBC’s Andrew Marr. 

It comes a day after nearly 200 countries agreed on a deal to try to prevent the worst consequences of the climate crisis, following two weeks of talks in Glasgow, Scotland.  

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Update: Countries strike deal at COP26 climate summit after last-minute compromise on coal (CNBC)

WNU Editor: This is what has been pledged .... COP26: Here’s What Countries Have Pledged (Council on Foreign Relations). 

Some of the kids and environmentalists are not happy .... Greta Thunberg dismisses COP26 deal as more ‘blah, blah, blah’ amid fury at last-minute U-turn from China and India on coal (Daily Mail).

This is why China will be the big winner from the policy ideas discussed at the UN’s climate conference .... Corruption, China and Green Energy (Joe Duffus, The Drill Down). 

As to what is my take. See below: