New draft of COP26 agreement includes unprecedented but weakened reference to fossil fuels
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The draft comes on the last day of the conference but is not final -- it will still need all 197 parties in attendance to agree to it, and further watering down is entirely possible. Pressure is mounting on fossil fuel producers to keep it in.
But the substance in this draft is weaker than the previous one, using watered down language, some of which can be open to interpretation.
The draft comes on the last day of the nearly two-week climate conference but is not final -- it will still need all 197 parties in attendance to agree to it, and further watering down is entirely possible.
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