Yes, Cop26 could have gone further – but it still brought us closer to a 1.5C world | James Shaw

The window to achieve that goal is vanishingly small, but it is there. Now we must seize this one last chance

Like many others, I would like to have seen a stronger outcome from Cop26. But we shouldn't lose sight of the fact that much was achieved - and the final outcome does get us much closer to where we need to be than where we were a few weeks ago.

For the first time countries agreed to take action on fossil fuels. Yes, it could have gone further - but let's not forget that never before has there been a single word uttered on fossil fuels in any Cop agreement. So the agreed text is significant.