A new version of the COP26 draft agreement was published early on Friday and retains a reference to fossil fuels, despite a fierce campaign from major coal, oil and gas producers to water down the text.
A new version of the COP26 draft agreement was published early on Friday and retains a reference to fossil fuels, despite a fierce campaign from major coal, oil and gas producers to have it removed.
The draft comes on the final day of the nearly two-week conference but is not final -- it will need all 197 parties in attendance to agree to it. Although it retains a reference to fossil fuels, the language has been slightly watered down from the earlier version. The current draft calls for the acceleration of"the phaseout of unabated coal power and of inefficient subsidies for fossil fuels," while the earlier draft didn't include the word"inefficient.
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