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Climate deal “falls short” as China and India block end to coal power – BBC News

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World leaders and environmental experts have welcomed a UN climate deal that for the first time targets fossil fuel as the key driver of global warming. However many expressed disappointment with the agreement and warned that the world was still on course for disastrous warming.

The summit reached deadlock over coal power after India and China blocked a call for it to be completely phased out. Instead the summit could only agree that it would be “phased down”.

The UK, which hosted the summit, hailed the deal as a “game-changing agreement”. But critics warned that it does not deliver the key summit goal of limiting global warming to 1.5C by the end of the century.

The summit did agree to provide money for poorer countries to help them adapt to climate change, as well as curbs to methane emissions and deforestation.

Jane Hill presents BBC News at Ten reporting by science editor David Shukman, Rajini Vaidyanathan in Delhi, Stephen McDonnell in Beijing and North America editor Jon Sopel in Washington.

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  1. @underpaidwriter

    January 14, 2024 at 10:16 am

    China and India truly sucks

  2. @woodworking406

    January 14, 2024 at 10:16 am

    Typical western media propaganda. They conveniently left out the fact that over the last century they were allowed to pollute uninterrupted to build up their economies. Now that someone else wants to do the same, they go on a smear campaign and misinformation mission.

    Also, carbon footprint per capita makes each European looks pretty horrible.

  3. @dfp76

    January 14, 2024 at 10:16 am

    Sharma so full of shit

  4. @bhupindersingh5290

    January 14, 2024 at 10:16 am

    Unfortunately this the fate of india.
    However we should all pray to WaheguruRamAllah for Good future of our beautiful country.
    Also we should all stand for injustice even if our neighbors are from different religions. Otherwise peace will not remain.

  5. @rakeshsoma5990

    January 14, 2024 at 10:16 am

    As usual western biased coverage. Look at India's per capita consumption compared to western world. I result will shock you. India pledged to become zero carbon emittors in the near future. But western elites not even try to go green. By the way recently Brits announced that they're opening their coal mines for energy. I want to say well done my Brits. Your the inspiration for who wanna pollute the world further more.

  6. @olivergrumitt2601

    January 14, 2024 at 10:16 am

    China apparently has emitted more CO2 in the last 8 years than Britain has in the entire time since the Industrial Revolution. Without support and measures taken by China and India, both desperately overpopulated, with almost 3 billion people between them, the population of the entire planet only 77 years ago when World War 2 ended – all measures taken to cut or limit emissions will be totally useless, and there should be no doubt whatsoever in people’s minds about that.
    The only way in fact to stop emissions was not to have an industrial revolution in the first place.
    But of course people did not know about climate problems then. And a world without an industrial revolution would still have desperate problems, just different from the ones we have now.

  7. @olivergrumitt2601

    January 14, 2024 at 10:16 am

    All this was and is entirely predictable. We rant and rave about the climate and have done so for years without anything really being done about it. The fact is civilization can not survive without the use of fossil fuels but also cannot survive if we continue to use them indefinitely.
    And also, all these worries about the climate will mean nothing if Putin in Russia launches a nuclear war, and wipes civilization out in the process,
    At the moment you cannot reduce emissions without also drastically reducing standards of living, to a lifestyle back to the Middle Ages, medieval or even earlier, which whatever else they may say otherwise, people in the developed world will not accept and people in China, India and other places are not prepared to forgo increases in living standards.
    Frankly, the world is beset by so many desperate problems which are now too far gone and too big to fix. The climate is one – it really is a case of shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted, although the door has not even been shut yet – wars, like the one in the Ukraine caused by Man’s aggressive nature and population, which is now almost 8 billion, up from 3 and a half billion when I was born 60 years ago. And all this is not to mention, depletion of finite resources which things like recycling can only slow it down and not stop, and civilization will certainly end when that happens, even if by a miracle these other problems could be resolved.
    All this climate talk is a classic case of “Never in the field of human history has there been so much talk and conferences about a problem going on for so long for so little, if any result”.
    And how much emissions have this Egypt conference and others like it have caused? And how much emissions do the media cause reporting on this and any other issue? How much CO2 did this report emit, for instance? I am pretty certain it is not nothing.

  8. @JT-zl8yp

    January 14, 2024 at 10:16 am

    Reduce per capita emissions of developed countries first

  9. @anguschoi9122

    January 14, 2024 at 10:16 am

    So scared

  10. @shubhankmanhas5255

    January 14, 2024 at 10:16 am

    Firstly European countries do world wars destroy lands colonize people destroy economy treat native people las second class citizen and use most of the coal to become develop and then balme developing countries for using coal and polluting envorment 👍

  11. @kedarmarathe7806

    January 14, 2024 at 10:16 am

    Coal power emissions per capita, G20.
    Annual average from 2015-2020, in tonnes CO2.
    1. Australia- 5.34
    2. South Korea- 3.81
    3. South Africa- 3.19
    4. United States- 3.08
    5. China- 2.71
    6. Germany- 2.37
    7. Japan- 2.08
    8. Canada- 1.27
    9. EU27- 1.16
    10. Turkey- 1.03
    11. Russia- 1.01
    12. India- 0.64
    13. Indonesia- 0.43
    14. Mexico- 0.19
    15. France- 0.12
    16. Brazil- 0.1
    17. Argentina- 0.04

    Source- Ember's Global Electricity Review

  12. @annazfker2028

    January 14, 2024 at 10:16 am

    … "THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE"
    IS KILLING US,
    AND IT WILL KILL YOU.

  13. @richardcowley4087

    January 14, 2024 at 10:16 am

    There is no such thing as 'man made climate change'
    no untampered, empirical evidence has ever been furnished by anyone of man made climate change existance
    the ipcc ar6 is nothing more than an attributivist, emotional fantasy piece

  14. @Vickielindstrander

    January 14, 2024 at 10:16 am

    Coal "IGCC" is more thermally efficient than oil

  15. @djjam4340

    January 14, 2024 at 10:16 am

    We will act when it's too late, we're good at that.

  16. @inspiringyou5642

    January 14, 2024 at 10:16 am

    US and China take your carbon emission down first

  17. @jimmunro4649

    January 14, 2024 at 10:16 am

    We no all BS apart from Silly people

  18. @lofwyrdragonborn7589

    January 14, 2024 at 10:16 am

    Asia is the west's factory, stop consuming so much and we'll stop producing it. The Western powers are just a bunch of arrogant , entitled snobs with a serious coloniser complex. We are NOT your slaves

  19. @brookedunsmuir1153

    January 14, 2024 at 10:16 am

    Yawn, Mars has been warmer than normal as well. It's a solar cycle. There has been global warming and cooling before man. But hey, I'm all for a cleaner earth! Coal and oil is a sacred gift that should not be wasted or exploited.

  20. @elgaatooo

    January 14, 2024 at 10:16 am

    Yeah right, India and China, the two countries who are amongst the topmost nations producing the most green energy will be answerable to the effected countries, while Europe and US, which contributed to the largest amount of historical emmisions are the ones who decide who will be answerable to whom. Hypocrisy at its best.

  21. @thecaptainz

    January 14, 2024 at 10:16 am

    World knows who has most carbon emissions… 😅😅 india is following paris agreement better then you…..

  22. @PETE4955

    January 14, 2024 at 10:16 am

    To late never going to happen:where to stupid as a species . The climate will change us.

  23. @andrewlambert7246

    January 14, 2024 at 10:16 am

    Give India low interest loans so that India can make it nuclear reactors which according to IAEA is some of the safest reactors in the world. The waste can be brought to normal levels in about three hundred years which is not a long time.

  24. @SteveeCee

    January 14, 2024 at 10:16 am

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