COP26: US, China promoted 'coal phase down' concept. Then why is India getting disproportionate blame for it?

COP26 climate meet ended with a deal that talks about a ‘phase down’ of coal. Several parties are contending that India was among those who sought a change from ‘phase out’ to ‘phase down’ of the controversial fuel. But is the criticism really justified? The outcome of COP26 in Glasgow is the first one focused on coal, and not the entire gamut of fossil fuels. Basically the overt attention to coal hid the dependence of much of the developed world on the major cause of emissions: oil and gas. At the crunch talks, it was China which was more insistent…