石炭火力「削減」を採択　１．５度の努力追求―協定ルール合意・ＣＯＰ２６閉幕

　【グラスゴー時事】国連気候変動枠組み条約第２６回締約国会議（ＣＯＰ２６）は１３日、石炭火力発電の削減を各国に呼び掛ける文言を盛り込んだ成果文書「グラスゴー気候合意」を採択し、閉幕した。世界の気温上昇を「１．５度に抑える努力の追求」も明記。地球温暖化対策の国際合意「パリ協定」の運用ルールのうち、積み残されていた温室効果ガス削減量の国際取引の指針もまとめた。
　ＣＯＰ２６は会期を１日延長し、詰めの交渉を続けていた。焦点の一つだった石炭火力発電に関する部分は、当初案では「廃止」としていたが、採択の直前に中国とインドが反発。「削減」に置き換えられた。（2021/11/14-14:39）

COP26 climate talks ended Saturday with the adoption of the Glasgow Climate Pact asking countries to "phase down" coal-fired power.
   The pact adopted at the 26th Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, or COP26, in Glasgow, Scotland, also called for pursuing efforts to cap global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius compared with preindustrial times.
   The conference, originally scheduled to end Friday, had to be extended for an extra day to forge an agreement on the outcome document. Although a draft for the document called on countries to "phase out" the use of coal power, China and India stood against the expression in the last minute, a move that apparently led the finalized pact to seek to "phase down" coal instead.
   Specifically, the pact calls on each country to promote technological development that contributes to the shift to an energy system with limited greenhouse gas emissions, including the acceleration of efforts to phase down the use of coal that is not mitigated with technologies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.