Gas concerns risk watering down Cop 26 pledge: report
A pledge made at the UN climate conference Cop 26 to end international public financing for unabated fossil fuel projects by the end of this year risks being watered down by exemptions for gas on the back of energy security concerns, while lacking concrete strategies to boost support for clean energy, a report released by civil society organisations (CSOs) Oil Change International (OCI), International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and Tearfund shows.
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