{"id":7282,"date":"2021-11-14T06:56:39","date_gmt":"2021-11-14T06:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/?p=7282"},"modified":"2021-11-14T06:56:41","modified_gmt":"2021-11-14T06:56:41","slug":"cop26-new-global-climate-deal-reached-despite-coal-compromise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/cop26-new-global-climate-deal-reached-despite-coal-compromise\/","title":{"rendered":"COP26: New global climate deal reached despite coal compromise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>COP26 ends in climate agreement despite India watering down coal resolution<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>World leaders from nearly 200 countries reached a new climate deal to speed up action on tackling climate change as the two-week COP26 summit concluded in Glasgow, Scotland, on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Glasgow Climate Pact signatories pledged to continue working to limit global warming to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, the target set at the Paris climate summit in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the pact did not go far enough to tackle catastrophic global warming following a last-minute proposed change by India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Coal compromise<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last-minute intervention by India watered down the climate language on \u201cphasing out\u201d coal to merely \u201cphasing down\u201d. Several countries said they were deeply disappointed by the change in language but had no choice but to go along with it. India\u2019s environment and climate minister, Bhupender Yadav, said the revision reflected the \u201cnational circumstances of emerging economies\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>US climate envoy John Kerry said governments had no choice but to accept India\u2019s coal language change. \u201cIf we hadn\u2019t done that we wouldn\u2019t have had an agreement,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fiji\u2019s prime minister, Frank Bainimarama, said the 1.5C target leaves\u00a0Glasgow\u00a0\u201cbattered, bruised, but alive\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UN chief Antonio Guterres called the global deal \u201creflect the interests, the conditions, the contradictions and the state of political will in the world today,\u201d he added. \u201cThey take important steps, but unfortunately the collective political will was not enough to overcome some deep contradictions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COP26 ends in climate agreement despite India watering down coal resolution World leaders from nearly 200 countries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[62,1],"tags":[238,370,76],"class_list":["post-7282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","tag-climate","tag-cop26","tag-environment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/COP26-in-Glasgow.jpeg?fit=690%2C370&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-1Ts","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7282"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7285,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7282\/revisions\/7285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}