CLIMATE CONFERENCE

IZUCHUKWU EPUEKE

15 November 2021

British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson says the Glasgow climate deal is a game-changing agreement which sounds the death knell for coal power.

Although countries only agreed to phase down rather than phase out coal, the prime minister said this was a fantastic achievement.

The wording change was made after a late intervention by China and India.

But it remains the first time plans to reduce coal have been mentioned in such a climate deal.

The agreement was reached after the two-week Glasgow COP26 summit went into overtime on Saturday.

Critics have said the deal will not meet the key summit goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 Celsius by the end of the century.