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Friday, 12th November 2021.

Here I am in Glasgow at COP26, on what was meant to have been the last day of COP26. However, the final agreement on the wording, of what became known as the Glasgow Climate Pact, was not reached until the evening of Saturday 13th November.

Words matter. Getting nearly 200 nations to agree on the wording of a text is an arduous process. It is an achievement in and of itself to reach global consensus.

Unfortunately, this draft text and the final pact failed to capture the urgency we need to truly address the climate crisis. When it comes to multilateral systems, we can only move as slow at the least ambitious nations. But we must keep trying. Climate Change knows no national borders and so we have to continue to work together.