{"id":38908,"date":"2021-11-15T01:23:50","date_gmt":"2021-11-14T16:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2021\/nov\/14\/india-criticised-over-coal-at-cop26-but-real-villain-was-climate-injustice"},"modified":"2021-11-15T01:23:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-14T16:23:50","slug":"india-criticised-over-coal-at-cop26-but-real-villain-was-climate-injustice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38908","title":{"rendered":"India criticised over coal at Cop26 \u2013 but real villain was climate injustice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say country\u2019s watering down of fossil fuel pledge reflected its lack of choices <\/p>\n<p>It was a dramatic 11th-hour decision, portrayed as a devastating blow to the success of Cop26.<\/p>\n<p>After pressure exerted by India and China, the wording of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2021\/nov\/14\/what-are-the-key-points-of-the-glasgow-climate-pact-cop26\">final deal<\/a> was watered down to a pledge to \u201cphase down\u201d rather than \u201cphase out\u201d coal. Alok Sharma, the president of Cop26, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/video\/2021\/nov\/14\/i-am-deeply-sorry-alok-sharma-fights-back-tears-as-watered-down-cop26-deal-agreed-video\">on the brink of tears<\/a> as he explained what had happened and the last-minute alteration brought sharp words of rebuke from the US and other nations.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2021\/nov\/14\/india-criticised-over-coal-at-cop26-but-real-villain-was-climate-injustice\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say country\u2019s watering down of fossil fuel pledge reflected its lack of choices It was a dramatic 11th-hour decision, portrayed as a devastating blow to the success of Cop26.After pressure exerted by India and China, the wording of the final de&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1160,589,493,65,492,62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alok-sharma","category-coal","category-energy","category-environment","category-fossil-fuels","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38909,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38908\/revisions\/38909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}