With COP-26, the United Nations Climate Change conference, which was still in progress in Glasgow as this issue of Feed Compounder went to the publishers, it is too early to judge whether the event will, overall, be judged a success.However, there are some positive signs.Greenhouse gases produced by burning coal are the single biggest contributor to driving climate change and weaning the world off coal is considered to constitute a critical element in limiting temperature rises across the planet. Alok Sharma, the BritishPresident of the two-week summit, detailed an agreement to phase out existing coal-fueled power plants and stop building new ones. Signatories of the admittedly non-binding pledge include major banks and forty-six countries, of which twenty-three were making commitments on ending their use of coal for the first time. However, the absence of Australia, India, the US, and China from the pledge to drop coal has attracted criticism and concern, although India's Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, announced that his country, currently a major polluter, intends to generate half its electricity from renewables by 2030.
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