Coal and fossil fuel subsidy phase-out call survives in new Cop26 draft text

Climate activists protesting during the official final day of the Cop26 summit in Glasgow (Andrew Milligan/PA)

Calls on countries to accelerate the phase-out of “unabated coal and “inefficient fossil fuel subsidies” has survived into a new version of the deal for overrunning Cop26 talks.

The latest draft, published more than 13 hours after the UN climate summit in Glasgow was due to have finished, also requests countries “revisit and strengthen” their 2030 emissions-cutting targets by the end of 2022.