Earlier, at a stocktaking plenary, India made an important intervention to express its disappointment over the draft text of the agreement.
Fossil fuels and their use have enabled parts of the world to attain high levels of wealth and wellbeing, and targeting any particular sector is uncalled for, he said.
The Glasgow agreement was a more ambitious deal than many longtime COP observers had expected, with the coal commitment in particular held up as an important breakthrough.
In the final hours, countries including low-lying island nations like the Maldives and carbon powers like the US complained that it didn’t go far enough.
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