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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectators' Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm Isabel Hardman and this is the Sunday Roundup.

Last night, COP 26 drew to a close after two weeks of intense arguments, haggling and emotional highs and lows.

A pact was approved in principle, but a last-minute change engineered by the

delegations from India and China was what drew most of the attention. The final wording in the

agreement now refers to nations committing to a phase down of coal rather than a phase out,

as many had been hoping for. Alok Sharma, the president of COP26, joined Trevor Phillips from Glasgow

and set about defending the deal that had been secured. You know, when we started this whole

process two years ago, we said that what we wanted to achieve at Glasgow was to keep within reach

the temperature goal of limiting temperature rises to 1.5 degrees. We delivered on that. There

were very many people who doubted it. We delivered on it. And actually, that was acknowledged

by some of the most climate vulnerable countries, by some of the climate NGOs as well.

And I'm very pleased about that. Not only that, but we also closed off all the outstanding

elements of the Paris rulebook, the Paris Agreement after six

years it had not been completed. We did that here. That is historic. And we also ensured that

there was more money coming to support developing nations. And therefore, I think what we've

achieved here is something really quite remarkable. Now, on the issue of coal, I should point out, Trevor,

that for the very first time in any of these conferences,

the word coal is actually reflected in the text.

That, again, is a first.

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