Leaders water down Cop26 climate deal amid warnings that agreement is on 'life support'


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Plans for a deal to limit global temperature increases appear to have watered down plans for a curb on fossil fuels in the face of opposition from the world's worst polluters. Leaders at Cop26 in Glasgow today published a new draft of a potential agreement from the Glasgow summit amid warnings that hopes of a new consensus were on 'life support'. The first draft of the 'cover decision' for the overarching agreement at the summit , published earlier this week, called for countries 'to accelerate the phasing-out of coal and subsidies for fossil fuels'. But a new draft produced today...