'China and India are going to have to explain themselves to the most climate vulnerable countries in the world,' Alok Sharma said Sunday.
The agreement, which is not legally binding, was amended at the eleventh hour after interventions from India and China — both among the world's biggest burners of coal.
There are fears that a more drastic rise in temperatures will disproportionately affect vulnerable populations such as the world's small island nations which are already being inundated by rising sea levels. "China and India are going to have to explain themselves to the most climate vulnerable countries in the world," U.K. lawmaker Alok Sharma, who led the COP26 negotiations, told the BBC's Andrew Marr.to try to prevent the worst consequences of the climate crisis, following two weeks of talks in Glasgow, Scotland.
"But at the end of the day, this is the first time ever that we've got a language about coal in a COP decision. I think that is absolutely historic."
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