Another Disappointment at COP 26

From this:

GLASGOW, Scotland — International negotiators approved a climate agreement at the COP26 summit Saturday that calls for reductions in coal and fossil fuel use and transition to renewables — a first in the more than 25-year history of UN climate talks.

Some take-aways with my comments.

• The talks fell short of meeting developing countries’ demands for access to funding to compensate them for climate-related losses. This sounds fair, and, of course, it is, but it’s a political impossibility.  If this argument carries on too long, humankind is  that much closer to its demise.  If there is a way out of this, the first world must develop technologies that can be shared with the world.  Not sure how likely that is, but again, it’s the only conceivable way out.  

• The fossil fuel language was weakened via the intervention from India just moments before the summit closed Saturday, moving from calling for a “phase out” to a “phase down” of coal.  If the success or failure of this whole process turns on meaningless semantics, we’re toast.