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Weekend: COP26: Analysing the new climate deal

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14/11/2021 GMT

COP26: Analysing the new climate deal

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With a goal of keeping warming within 1.5 degrees, does the new agreement go far enough?

After a wrought final push, the UN climate summit concluded with a new agreement signed by over two hundred nations. But critics testify dismay at last-minute amendments that changed the language around the future of coal, with the expression 'phasing out' of coal changed to 'phasing down'.

Also in the programme: Climate change is causing increased flooding and erosion in Nigeria. We hear from Ade-olu Ade-kola, a journalist in the commercial capital of Lagos. And US President Joe Biden will hold a virtual summit tomorrow with China's leader Xi Jinping.

Joining Celia Hatton to discuss these and other issues are Loretta Napoleoni, Italian-born author and economist and Toby Green, Professor of Precolonial and Lusophone African History and Culture at King's College, London.

(Photo: Hundreds of delegates walked out of the COP26 venue. Credit: PA Media).

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