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After running over by a day, negotiators at COP26 finally reached agreement on a ‘Glasgow Climate Pact’ on 13 November. The two weeks of tense talks had focused on ambition to keep the 1.5C warming limit within reach, delivering finance for adaptation and loss and damage, and action on phasing out fossil fuels. In a statement, UN General Secretary Antonio Guterres called the final negotiated agreement “a compromise”, that leaves us “still knocking on the door of climate catastrophe”. “This is a fragile win,” said Alok Sharma, UK president of COP26. “We can now say with credibility that we have...
