COP26: The final deal struck at the Glasgow climate conference is ‘imperfect’ but vital

Marshall Islands climate envoy Tina Stege: ‘I am not willing to leave here with nothing. We have a text in front of us. … It is not perfect. It is not without fault. We have much work to do. But it does represent real progress.’ Low-lying islands, such as the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean, are among the most vulnerable to rising sea levels caused by climate change. — AFP

Nearly 200 nations agreed on a deal on Nov 13, 2021, to step up efforts to avoid dangerous climate change, boost investments in green energy and speed up the shift away from coal at the 26th United Nations Conference of Parties on Climate Change, aka COP26, in Glasgow, Scotland.

But a last minute intervention from India led to the language around coal being weakened, dampening the mood in the final plenary.