India introduced a last minute change to the final COP26 agreement approved this Saturday, calling for the softening of the reference to the end of coal.
The UN climate summit, better known as COP26, has approved this Saturday a decisive agreement to keep alive the goal of limiting global warming by 1.5 degrees by 2100 with respect to pre-industrial levels.
In a dramatic finale, conference chair Alok Sharma announced that the Glasgow Climate Pact has been approved, after India unexpectedly introduced a last minute change away from coal as a source of energy. Energy.
Sharma himself had to interrupt his words on two occasions because he could not avoid tears for the alteration and apologized for “how the process has developed”.
The Indian amendment was approved by the rest of the countries, very reluctantly, to prevent the negotiations from breaking down and reaping a failure of historic dimensions.
India succeeded in turning the allusion to the “phase out” of coal into a “phase out”, despite the fact that the text contained the great novelty of referring for the first time to the need to end fossil fuels, a point that It provoked the greatest rejections in the last hours of the negotiation.
The agreement accelerates action against climate change and urges countries to raise their emission reduction targets during this same decade, although it recognizes that countries have “common but differentiated responsibilities.”
The text recognizes that limiting warming to 1.5ºC requires “rapid, deep and sustained reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions, including a reduction of carbon dioxide emissions of 45% by 2030 in relation to the level of 2010 ″.
Regarding financing for developing countries, one of the points that has raised the most differences, the Glasgow Climate Pact urges rich states to double “at least” their contribution to the adaptation of the most disadvantaged countries before 2025 compared to 2019 levels. (I)
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