Climate Adaptation
Johnson’s Coal-and-Cash Climate Goals Slip Out of Reach
- G-20 members stumbling over agreement on ending use of coal
- Some key leaders aren’t planning to attend COP26 summit
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Boris Johnson has said his priorities at COP26 will be ending coal power and raising climate cash. Two weeks out from the start of negotiations in Glasgow, Scotland, the signs aren’t looking good.
The latest exhibit: a meeting of Group of 20 officials on Friday that aimed to start hashing out an agreement that’s crucial to COP ended in gridlock. There was no consensus on bringing an end to coal use, or even aiming for net-zero, and people familiar with the meeting said positions had grown further apart in recent months.