"Keep 1.5 alive."
The president of COP26, Alok Sharma, clung to this credo on Friday, while bitter negotiations continued to put on paper the conclusions of a climate conference supposed to end in the evening.
The Paris agreement concluded in 2015 aims to limit the increase in global temperature "well below" + 2 ° C compared to the pre-industrial era, and "if possible + 1.5 ° C".
“Paris made a promise, Glasgow must keep it,” Alok Sharma has repeatedly said over the past few days.
On Friday, international delegations were still debating how to get there, and most importantly, with what money.
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