Why has it been so hard to get fossil fuels mentioned in UN climate deals
The preliminary draft COP26 agreement on how nations will collaborate to curb climate change, released Wednesday, explicitly mentions reducing fossil fuel consumption â€" unlike previous global climate accords. Whether that language stays in the final document remains to be seen.
The change might seem unremarkable: The consumption of nonrenewable resources is central to the discussion about how to respond to climate change, after all. But in the context of consensus-seeking climate diplomacy, the new language is groundbreaking. Over two decades of climate talk, collective calls to phase out fossil fuels have been rare.
Here’s why that’s the case.
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