U.K. Sees No Deal Coming to Eliminate Coal at UN Climate Summit
- ‘It will be hard to consign coal to history at Glasgow’
- Australia climate plan includes coal: U.K.’s UN ambassador
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The United Nations climate talks haven’t even started and host-nation U.K. is already conceding that a key goal -- a deal to end coal burning -- is off the table.
“It will be hard to consign coal to history at Glasgow,” Barbara Woodward, the U.K.’s ambassador to the UN, said in an interview Wednesday, a day before she travels to Scotland for the COP26 climate conference that begins Sunday. “We’ve got to give up coal and some of the plans do not foresee that.”