COP26 Roundup: Fast, Binding, High-Impact Action on Climate was Elusive

SUGAR LAND--November 17, 2021--Written by John Egan for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--In searching for a top-line summary for the recently concluded U.N. climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, one is tempted to reach for a line in Macbeth made more famous by William Faulkner: "Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." Much to the disappointment of climate activists, climate scientists, delegates to the event, and not a few businesses, banks and insurance firms, the 26th meeting of the U.N. Conference of the Parties (COP26) event did not produce a plan to rapidly and dramatically fight climate change. Despite the climate-worsened extreme weather and natural disasters that preceded COP26, there were no unilateral pledges to end the burning of coal.