Last minute wording change from "coal phase out" to "coal phase down". Many country delegations upset but wanting to not scuttle the whole deal they begrudgingly went along with it. Delegates from island nations calling the whole thing a failure.

Sorry can't find an actual article on this, just watched it live on Al Jazeera

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    Doesn't matter what they wrote down. They have not met the targets of a single historic pledge on climate. NOT ONE.

    This would be no different, and whatever things are in the document will not be met either.

    It is a show to continually stave off the people removing them from power.

    • Orcocracy [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      And these international agreements on climate change go back to at least 1992. The world has burned through three decades of compromise, and none of those half-measures have ever been met anyway.