Cop26 ends in climate agreement despite India watering down coal resolution

Minister for the Environment Eamon Ryan said that while the deal "gives us a chance of keeping 1.5 degrees alive", the last-minute agreement on coal is "deeply disappointing".

(Jane Barlow/PA)

The Cop26 climate talks have agreed to get countries to strengthen their emissions-cutting targets for 2030 by the end of next year in a bid to limit dangerous warming.

Ministers and negotiators at the UN summit in Glasgow have also sent a signal on the shift away from the world’s dirtiest fuel, with a deal calling for efforts to escalate the “phase down” of unabated coal, as well as the phasing out of inefficient fossil fuel subsidies.