{"id":449992,"date":"2021-11-16T09:08:32","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T03:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=449992"},"modified":"2021-11-16T11:28:44","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T05:58:44","slug":"glasgow-cop26-climate-deal-sealed-after-late-drama-over-coal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/glasgow-cop26-climate-deal-sealed-after-late-drama-over-coal\/","title":{"rendered":"Glasgow COP26: Climate deal sealed after late drama over coal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UN climate talks ended with a deal that for the first time targeted fossil fuels as the key driver of global warming, even as coal-reliant countries, led by India, lobbed last-minute objections.<\/p>\n<p>While the agreement won applause for keeping alive the hope of capping global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius, many of the nearly 200 national delegations wished they\u2019d come away with more. The negotiators at the COP26 summit here recognised India&#8217;s intervention for the world to \u201cphase down\u201d rather than \u201cphase out\u201d fossil fuels. After a huddle between the envoys from India, China, the United States and European Union, the clause was hurriedly amended to ask countries to \u201cphase down\u201d their coal use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN climate talks ended with a deal that for the first time targeted fossil fuels as the key driver of global warming, even as coal-reliant countries, led by India, lobbed last-minute objections. While the agreement won applause for keeping alive the hope of capping global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius, many of the nearly 200 national delegations wished they\u2019d come away with more. The negotiators at the COP26 summit here recognised India&#8217;s intervention for the world to \u201cphase down\u201d rather than \u201cphase out\u201d fossil fuels. After a huddle between the envoys from India, China, the United States and European Union, [&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-449992","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\/449992","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=449992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}