Alok Sharma ‘deeply frustrated’ by India and China over coal

Cop26 president says nations will have to explain to climate-vulnerable countries why they did what they did'

India and China will have to explain themselves to poor nations" after watering down the Glasgow climate pact, warned the Cop26 president, Alok Sharma, adding that their actions had left him deeply frustrated".

He told the Guardian: We are on the way to consigning coal to history. This is an agreement we can build on. But in the case of China and India, they will have to explain to climate-vulnerable countries why they did what they did."