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What next after the failure of Cop26?
There can be no excuses — we have to shut down the fossil fuel industry, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE MP

DURING Cop26 in Glasgow, we have seen a festival of grandiose speeches and sweeping rhetoric from Western leaders warning of the cataclysmic threat posed by climate change and advocating urgent collective action.

Yet these empty promises have not been backed up with the binding commitments that are required. 

The final agreement, which included a shameful watering down of the commitment to phase out coal production, was utterly inadequate to meet the climate crisis at the scale it demands. 

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