This is the Guardian.

For the past two weeks, behind the scenes, negotiators,

fueled in part, it would seem, by the infamous Scottish drink Iron Brew,

were working on a draft text of the key decisions to come out of COP26. It contained a series of measures to build

on what was agreed at COP21 in Paris in 2015, resetting the world's course towards the climate action so urgently required.

The first draft was published on Wednesday and may be finalised today. May is a key word here because it needs the

agreement of a hundred and ninety seven different parties. It's the final

sprint of a marathon fortnight.

From The Guardian, I'm Madeline Finley and this is Science Weekly,

Daily. The final episode from COP26.

Have we made any progress on saving the planet?

I spoke to the Guardian's environment correspondent Fiona Harvey, an environment editor

Damien Carrington, about what to make of it all and what might happen next.

I started off by asking Damien about some of the most

notable things to come out of the past two weeks. Well we're into the second week now and

the first week saw a lot of glitzy announcements around stopping

deforestation by 2030 cutting methane some action on coal some of those are slightly

unraveled as some of the countries seem to have said they weren't going to do what they signed up to.

And there was some interesting scientific takes, so some that were quite optimistic based on 2015

net zero promises, suggesting we might be on track for 1.8 or 1.9 but then following that on Tuesday there was a report

from Climate Action Tracker which showed that based on the near term which is what really matters the

near term 2030 pledges and action were actually on track for 2.4 which is pretty

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