Maldives Environment Minister Aminath Shauna put it bluntly: “It will be too late for the Maldives.”
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He spoke after a series of poor and island nations expressed disappointment the draft did not do more to support them. "This has been, I think, a good negotiation." special climate envoy John Kerry told the plenary. "If it is a good negotiation, all the parties are uncomfortable," U.S. The United States could see not everyone was happy about the draft deal in front of the U.N. Once they reconvene, a vote on the deal is likely. "We will reconvene very, very shortly," COP26 President Alok Sharma said, after country delegations finished up their speeches. special envoy John Kerry was overheard by Reuters telling his Chinese counterpart Xie Zhenhua "You’re supposed to be phasing out coal over the next 20 years, you just signed an agreement with us." The meeting, confirmed to Reuters by a member of the Indian delegation, suggested last-minute negotiations were underway as the UK conference hosts pressed urgently for an accord. They came out of the meeting about 30 minutes later. climate talks got a bit nervous when representatives of the United States and the EU went into a meeting with their counterparts from China and India to discuss some of the deal's language around phasing out coal. discussion with China and India about coal was an attempt to find common ground. You cannot ask us to phase out the process of development," he told Reuters as delegates milled about on the plenary floor. "This argument is about special circumstances. Samuel Adeoye Adejuwon, a technical adviser on Nigeria's delegation, said his country was aligned with India in its opposition to strong language targeting fossil fuels in the Glasgow pact. "The voice of developing countries hasn’t been heard enough," he said through his translator. Then he said "we have a deal" through his translator. According to China, that is.Ĭhinese climate envoy Xie Zhenhua gave Reuters the thumbs up when asked on the plenary floor if the Glasgow pact was going to pass. Sharma apologized to the plenary for the way the process was handled and choked up as he spoke.ĬOP26 President Alok Sharma opened the formal plenary. Several countries expressed disappointment but said they would still support the deal to ensure the negotiations do not collapse in failure. India's environment minister Bhupender Yadav interrupted the adoption process for the Glasgow pact before it had barely begun, proposing new language in the deal that would request governments "phase down" coal use, rather than phase it out.
The test will be whether Glasgow marks the transition from promises made on paper to turning those promises into reality," said Kaveh Guilanpour, Vice President of International Strategies at the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions.ĬOP26 President Alok Sharma looked like he was about to cry.
“Whether COP26 was a success will only be known some time down the road.
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