COP27: A year on from Glasgow meet, world burning more dirty fuel than ever

PRI GEN INT .COVENTRY FGN5 FOSSIL-FUELS COP27: a year on from the Glasgow climate pact, the world is burning more fossil fuels than ever By Mathieu Blondeel, University of Warwick Coventry (UK), Nov 5 (The Conversation) The burning of fossil fuels caused 86% of all CO2 emissions during the past ten years. Despite being the primary culprits of global heating, coal, oil and gas were barely mentioned in the official texts of previous UN climate change summits. That all changed at COP26 in November 2021, where the Glasgow climate pact was signed. The agreement contained the first ever acknowledgement of the role of fossil fuels in causing climate change.