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FALSE NARRATIVES BEING MANUFACTURED!!
Nonsensical account by Politico...You don't have to have been "in the room" to know that this cannot be true. politico.eu/article/coal-d…
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Were India's concern on coal expressed at the last minute? That's an absolute lie. Let's check that out in detail. Here is an image of the para run through comparison in Word, highlighting the difference, between the versions of 12th and 13 th Nov (red is the later one)

On the draft of 12Nov, India noted the importance of the phaseout of all fossil fuels, and called for support to developing countries for a just transition. INGOs tweeted it. See here --

This was said publicly in the stocktaking plenary of 12th Nov. Like everybody else India would have provided a submission. So India had informed the Presidency of its views!!

What did the Presidency do? Just delayed significantly for >24 hours and at the last minute presented the same text, with only very minor changes, and one insubstantial concession (putting "fossil fuel" before "subsidies") with a take-it-or-leave-it strategy.

So it was designed to provoke a reaction and then put the onus of agreement or disagreement on India. In the end, India bit the bullet and said what it had to. Should India have kept quiet about subsidies instead? But to say that it was "bitterly unexpected" is outright BS.

The developed countries thought that India would keel over on the para. It is a matter of record now that it didnt. Live with it!!

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