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13 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
From the plenary floor, and things are looking tense and still a long way from everyone sitting down...
Meanwhile, Alok Sharma sits on the main stage, looking remarkably calm and waiting for the latest dramas to play out.
One of the huddles has now dissipated, but the one around John Kerry is getting bigger.
UK hosts obviously reluctant to force things to a start.

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13 Nov
Was #COP26 a success or a failure is an absurdly simplistic question. It's a both/and. As @Bankfieldbecky has noted it depends on whether you are looking to relative or absolute metrics.
But it is indisputable progress. It does increase the chances of getting the world to net zero and 'well below' 2C, even if 1.5C remains an enormous stretch, and it starts to at least engage with questions of historic injustice.
It is also a genuine diplomatic success for @AlokSharma_RDG @archieyounguk @camillaborn and the COP26 team. It is hard to see how a stronger deal could have been delivered with the mandates country delegations had.
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13 Nov
I understand the impulse to condemn the proposed COP26 agreement as inadequate given the scale of the crisis, but it really is a lot better than its critics are claiming.
The Paris Agreement and the progress it unlocked has, in the space of six years, pulled temperature projections down from circa 3C+ to 2.4C. The Glasgow Climate Pact (assuming it is not torpedoed at the last) effectively validates and builds on the Paris Agreement.
It creates a moment every year when governments will face intense public and geopolitical pressure to strengthen their decarbonisation plans.
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13 Nov
Just catching Sharma’s speech as I leave the site. He says the text is ‘clean’. Has a deal been done?
Sharma urges countries to come together. Acknowledges that delegations may now seek opportunity to leverage this moment to get more. He urges them not to, insisting the deal is ‘balanced’.
Sharma says ‘we will succeed or fail as one… the world is watching us, they are willing us to deliver a deal’.
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13 Nov
The big huddle appears to have broken up - or has it just moved. Kerry now appears to be speaking to Alok Sharma.
The talk in the room is that the row is about Article 6, but hard to confirm as press not allowed near the huddles.
COP26 President Alok Sharma has said more time is needed for colleagues to have discussions and as such the plenary will now start at 2:30.

But he then stressed "this COP will close this afternoon".
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13 Nov
The draft cover texts are out. #COP26 unfccc.int/sites/default/…
Crucial lines on updating NDCs next year are still in. Enough to let Presidency say 1.5C is still just about alive?
Totemic lines on phasing out unabated coal and inefficient subsidies remains, but with crucial additional reference to support for a 'just transition'.
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13 Nov
Good morning from day eleventy hundred in the Glasgow Climate Enormo-tent.
Just spoke to a few observers and other sources and the mood is still one of cautious optimism, apparently.
There have been no reports of big rows overnight, as yet, and the hope is that a broadly ambitious text can be steered through the final steps of the process and secure an agreement that would be a significant step forward for the global climate fight.
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