Global climate talks in Glasgow, Scotland, have ended with an agreement that the United Nations called both an “important step” and a “compromise”, but one that some activists dismissed as a “betrayal of the planet and the people”.The pact, approved by nearly 200 nations on Saturday, won applause for keeping alive the hope of capping global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit), but disappointed many with a last-minute change that watered down crucial language about coal. The revision, promoted by India and backed by China, called for nations to “phase down” rather than “phase out” the use of the dirtiest fossil fuel.The pact also did little to assuage vulnerable countries’ concerns about long-promised financing from rich nations, by replacing a provision that called for the establishment of a facility to compensate vulnerable countries for “loss and damage” with an offer for further dialogue on the issue.
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