The ultimate guide to why the COP26 summit ended in failure and disappointment (despite a few bright spots)

After two hard-fought weeks of negotiations, the Glasgow climate change summit all 197 participating countries adopted the so-called ‘Glasgow Climate Pact’; this despite an 11th hour intervention by India in which the final agreement was watered down from ‘phasing out’ coal to ‘phasing down’. Did this make it a failure? If we evaluate this using the summits original stated goals, the answer is yes.