'Deeply sorry': UK's Sharma offers apology for last-minute changes to climate deal reut.rs/31NqIFB 
The climate conference in Glasgow was the 26th of its kind but the first to call for a reduction in fossil fuels. India, though, raised last-minute objections and a clause on efforts to ‘phase out’ coal was weakened to say ‘phase down’ use of the fuel reut.rs/3FaDkoM
India's environment and climate minister said the watering down of language on phasing out coal was needed to reflect the 'national circumstances of emerging economies' reut.rs/31PhCIs #COP26
'I wish that we had managed to preserve the language on coal that was originally agreed,' British #COP26 President Alok Sharma said, referring to the hurried change from 'phase out' to 'phase down' in the agreement reut.rs/3nbkhEt
On the #COP26 agreement’s last-minute language change on coal, Greenpeace Executive Director @climatemorgan saw the glass as half full reut.rs/3wHBj0m
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