Coal to be ‘phased down’ in COP26 agreement

The climate pact that emerged at the end of a tense final day of COP26 included an agreement to “phase down” the use of coal.

While interventions from India and China saw the wording watered down from “phase out” at the 11th hour, the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson – whose government hosted the Glasgow climate conference – nevertheless called it “a game-changing agreement”.