{"id":449934,"date":"2021-11-16T08:44:44","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T03:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=449934"},"modified":"2021-11-16T10:38:56","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T05:08:56","slug":"major-win-for-india-at-cop26-as-it-convinces-world-to-phase-down-coal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/major-win-for-india-at-cop26-as-it-convinces-world-to-phase-down-coal\/","title":{"rendered":"Major win for India at COP26 as it convinces world to &#8216;phase down&#8217; coal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a major win in international diplomacy in the UN Climate Change Conference COP26, India on Saturday managed to convince the world to include coal to the &#8216;phase down&#8217;, instead of &#8216;phase out&#8217; after days of negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>India on finally backed the COP26 draft that was passed by nearly 200 nations. <\/p>\n<p>There was some strong opposition to the inclusion of &#8216;accelerating phaseout of unabated coal power and inefficient fossil fuel subsides&#8217; &#8211; mainly from India and China, and supported by South Africa on coal and Iran &amp; Nigeria on fossil fuel subsidies. <\/p>\n<p>However, it&#8217;s encouraging to see Australia, the US, Turkey, Colombia, Indonesia, and Japan support the text &#8212; indicating a significant shift from their earlier stand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a major win in international diplomacy in the UN Climate Change Conference COP26, India on Saturday managed to convince the world to include coal to the &#8216;phase down&#8217;, instead of &#8216;phase out&#8217; after days of negotiations. India on finally backed the COP26 draft that was passed by nearly 200 nations. There was some strong opposition to the inclusion of &#8216;accelerating phaseout of unabated coal power and inefficient fossil fuel subsides&#8217; &#8211; mainly from India and China, and supported by South Africa on coal and Iran &amp; Nigeria on fossil fuel subsidies. However, it&#8217;s encouraging to see Australia, the US, [&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-449934","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\/449934","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=449934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}