The great climate backslide: How governments are regressing worldwide

Emissions rose last year, fossil fuels are rebounding in force, renewable power stocks are taking a beating, policymakers flounder on climate action vowed in Glasgow – the long-term trend toward clean energy remains undiminished by current turbulence.
Photo: Nikolay Doychinov/AFP/Ritzau Scanpix
Photo: Nikolay Doychinov/AFP/Ritzau Scanpix
BY BLOOMBERG NEWS

At the conclusion of COP26 in November, summit chairman Alok Sharma praised the “heroic efforts” by nations showing they can rise above their differences and unite to tackle climate change, an outcome he said “the world had come to doubt.”

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