{"id":447321,"date":"2021-11-05T09:22:08","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T03:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=447321"},"modified":"2021-11-05T10:00:40","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T04:30:40","slug":"cop26-end-of-coal-is-in-sight-as-more-than-70-nations-join-new-pact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/cop26-end-of-coal-is-in-sight-as-more-than-70-nations-join-new-pact\/","title":{"rendered":"COP26: &#8216;End of coal is in sight&#8217; as more than 70 nations join new pact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UN conference host Britain said 77 countries had pledged to phase out coal, dirtiest of the fossil fuels that drive global warming, as a study showed the carbon dioxide they release into the atmosphere had rebounded to near pre-pandemic levels.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were expecting to see some rebound,\u201d said the study\u2019s lead author Pierre Friedlingstein, a climate modelling researcher at the University of Exeter. \u201cWhat surprised us was the intensity and rapidity of the rebound.\u201d Alok Sharma, British president of the COP26 conference in Glasgow, said the two-week meeting was on its way to gradually ending use of the world\u2019s most widely used fuel \u2014for which demand is set to hit a new record this year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN conference host Britain said 77 countries had pledged to phase out coal, dirtiest of the fossil fuels that drive global warming, as a study showed the carbon dioxide they release into the atmosphere had rebounded to near pre-pandemic levels. \u201cWe were expecting to see some rebound,\u201d said the study\u2019s lead author Pierre Friedlingstein, a climate modelling researcher at the University of Exeter. \u201cWhat surprised us was the intensity and rapidity of the rebound.\u201d Alok Sharma, British president of the COP26 conference in Glasgow, said the two-week meeting was on its way to gradually ending use of the world\u2019s most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,170,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-coal-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}