It was three years ago, almost to the day, when COP26 in Glasgow came to a close. A final deal, which ran into overtime, culminated in a five minutes to midnight change from India and China; a change apparently so disastrous that it struck shame in the hearts of the nation, sent shockwaves throughout the developing world and even made the chairman of COP, Alok Sharma, cry.
But what was this dramatic change? A non-legally binding agreement to phase out the global use of coal, a cheap and plentiful fuel, was modified to ‘phase down’.
Well, three years later, we have the same histrionics echoing from Baku. Developing nations stormed out of talks which ran into 30 hours of overtime.
But this time, developed nations, that means you, the UK taxpayers have promised £300 billion a year in climate and reparations to developing nations, which apparently isn't enough.
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