COP26: progress, but a mixed agreement

“I understand the deep disappointment“, announced Saturday, November 13 the British president of the COP26 Alok Sharma. Caught up in tears of frustration, he announces a mixed agreement in front of 200 countries. India, backed by China, has managed to weaken a major measure on coal. “Developing countries have the right to their fair share of the global carbon budget and to responsible use “, To said the Indian Minister of the Environment. In the final agreement, the abandonment of coal became decrease.

But most countries want to hold back the summit’s advances: an unprecedented commitment to éenergies fossils or the promise to accelerate the reduction of CO2 emissions from 2022. In Glasgow (Epod), demonstrations point out, however, that the record is insufficient. Vulnerable countries have not obtained a financial compensation mechanism for the destruction. The COP26 escapes a fiasco, but his commitments are still far from the mark to limit global warming to an acceptable threshold, according to scientists.