UK PM Boris Johnson Says UN Climate Deal Deal "Tinged With Disappointment"

Boris Johnson said his "delight at this progress" at the UN COP26 summit in Glasgow was "tinged with disappointment".

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Sunday hailed a global accord to speed up action against climate change as "truly historic" and "the beginning of the end for coal power".

But he said his "delight at this progress" at the UN COP26 summit in Glasgow was "tinged with disappointment" because of a failure to secure the agreement of all countries to phase out hydrocarbons.

Nearly 200 nations on Saturday signed a global deal to try to halt runaway global warming after two weeks of painful negotiations but fell short of what scientists say is needed to contain dangerous rises.

India and China weakened the final summit decision text in the final straight, insisting language was changed from "phase out" coal to "phase down", forcing Britain's COP26 president Alok Sharma to apologise and say the Asian giants needed to explain their decision.