#COP26: The key line about fossil fuels is still in the text.
It’s weak and compromised, but it’s a breakthrough, it’s a bridgehead and we have to fight like hell to keep it in there and have it strengthened.
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#COP26: Today’s plenary could witness a defining moment with a clutch of countries seeking to strike that line from the deal and dilute plans to force nations to come back next year with better emissions plans.
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#COP26: Coal & subsidies language includes a reference to just transition - very welcome.
Fossil fuel interests should be put on notice. The deal on the table is weak but if they gut it they’ll have to answer to the young, to people on the climate frontline & to history.
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#COP26: Today the eyes of the world are on Glasgow and the loudest voices in the room need to be the nations now fighting for their lives.
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#COP26: Developed countries, especially the United States, still need to step up on finance, throwing their weight behind the vulnerable nations pushing for increased public adaptation funding and recognition of the loss and damage they’re suffering from climate impacts.
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#COP26: Even at this late hour President Biden should send a signal to his team in Glasgow that they shouldn’t block public adaptation funding and finance for loss and damage from richer nations to developing countries threatened by rapidly rising temperatures.
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#COP26: On the assumption that the text (uploaded at 1810 GMT) will not change:
The text is meek, it’s weak and the 1.5C goal is only just alive, but a signal has been sent that the era of coal is ending. And that matters.
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#COP26: While the deal recognises need for deep emissions cuts this decade, those commitments are punted to next year. Young people who’ve come of age in the climate crisis won’t tolerate many more outcomes like this. Why should they when they’re fighting for their futures?
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#COP26: Glasgow was meant to deliver on firmly closing the gap to 1.5C and that didn’t happen, but in 2022 nations will now have to come back with stronger targets.
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#COP26: Today is an absolutely critical day in the fight to defend the 1.5C goal from vested interests who’ll do anything to dodge their responsibility for the climate crisis.
Anything less puts the essence of Paris in peril.
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#COP26: The new final decision text could be better, it should be better, and we have one day left to make it a lot, lot better.
Right now the fingerprints of fossil fuel interests are still on the text and this is not the breakthrough deal that people hoped for in Glasgow.
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#COP26: The key line on phasing out coal and fossil fuel subsidies has been critically weakened, but it’s still there and needs to be strengthened again before this summit closes. That’s going to be a big tussle and one we need to win.
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