COP26 Climate Deal Includes Historic Reference to Fossil Fuels but Doesn't Meet Urgency of a Crisis
by martyb from SoylentNews on (#5RWPJ)
upstart writes:
The COP process has tried and failed for years to include an acknowledgment that the climate crisis has been caused by the burning of fossil fuels. Coal is the single biggest source of greenhouse gases and phasing it out was a key priority of COP26 President Alok Sharma.
But despite that progress, the text doesn't reflect the urgency expressed by international scientists in their "code red for humanity" climate report published in August. Rather, it defers more action on reducing fossil fuel emissions to next year. The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reported the world needs to roughly halve emissions over the next decade.
Also at Washington Post and www.aljazeera.com
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