As we write today, negotiators are locked in tense talks over the final ‘COP decisions’. Expect this to continue through the night (Glasgow time) and for negotiations to spill over well into the weekend.

On the plus side, the all-important call for those countries who’d failed to come to Glasgow with a stronger 2030 target to come back in 2022 having stepped things up, has survived in the latest draft of the decision, despite efforts by Australia and a small band of other laggards to have this deleted.

On the down side, the call for an accelerated phase-out of coal power has been weakened through addition of the word ‘unabated’ in front of coal. This leaves the door open for Australia’s favourite tech fantasy – carbon capture and storage, which as we’ve well established by this stage is little more than a licence to keep polluting.
Other battles are still raging, particularly over the provision of funding to address permanent loss and damage from climate change. When the COP will wrap is anyone’s guess, but we expect to be here for some time yet.

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