Matt McGrath<\/a>
Environment correspondent in Bel\u00e9m<\/p>\nSo what has actually happened here in Bel\u00e9m?<\/p>\n
After two weeks of tough talking, negotiators have approved a key agreement by consensus, despite it being massively disappointing for at least half the countries at this COP.<\/p>\n
The deal that\u2019s been done, though, is mainly a re-iteration of stuff that\u2019s already been agreed at previous meetings.<\/p>\n
There is nothing clear or obvious about a move away from fossil fuels. There is nothing much about stopping deforestation. There is some commitment of money for poorer countries to cope with climate impacts, but it\u2019s the equivalent of \u201cthe cheque\u2019s in the post.\u201d<\/p>\n
The president of the COP did announce two \u201croadmaps\u201d on deforestation and one on transitioning away from fossil fuels, but these are mostly a sop to the audience here who desperately wanted those issues mentioned in the main text but couldn\u2019t overcome the objections of others including Saudi Arabia, Russia and India.<\/p>\n
These \u201croadmaps\u201d have no legal standing and are little more than a crumb of comfort.<\/p>\n
As one observer said \u2013 they\u2019d never seen so many people so underwhelmed by so little progress at a COP.<\/p>\n
Of course, not all countries will be disappointed in the outcome tonight. Those who are large producers of fossil fuels or whose economies are dependent on them will welcome the pause in ambition.<\/p>\n
It’s been a complicated COP with a complicated outcome and it’s emblematic of a wider world where there’s increasingly less consensus on what to do about global warming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What exactly does this ‘deal’ mean?published at 17:53 GMT 17:53 GMT Matt McGrathEnvironment correspondent in Bel\u00e9m So what…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[242,85,46,141],"class_list":["post-147484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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