‘COP26 has been a failure’: China, India weaken anti-coal pledge

It is business as usual for global fossil fuel companies in the near-term after the #COP26 #climate summit approved a deal which said the world needs to “phase down” rather than “phase out” coal use. The UN deal struck in Glasgow for the first time targeted fossil fuels as the key driver of global warming, even as #coal-reliant countries lobbed last-minute objections on the change in language to “phase down” coal.