of a normal one. well, now we ve established that. then it got weirder, and it caused an international incident, because then i bumped into the french ecological transition minister. she told french people to eat fewer croissants. that s just the sort of people you bump into, adam. somehow. newscast. newscast from the bbc. hello. it s chris in the studio. it s laura in the studio, with now one and a half croissants, for those people who are listening rather than watching. and it s adam in the riverside studio, in front of the cop26 climate conference in glasgow. hooray! and we ve got loads of coppery to get to beyond croissants, vegan or otherwise, but, laura, quite a bit of stuff going on at westminster in the last 2a hours, and particularly today, thursday, with developments hour by hour around notjust owen paterson, one particular backbencher, former cabinet
the end of coal is in sight. that s the word from the government here in the uk, where world powers have been meeting at the cop26 climate conference. it comes after more than a0 countries promised to phase out coal in the coming decades. poland, vietnam and chile are among the fast growing economies which now say they ll reduce their coal use. but as our science correspondent rebecca morelle reports, other big users of coal such china and the us haven t signed up to the deal. a dinosaur on the loose at the united nations, but with a message for humanity. listen up, people, i know a thing or two about extinction. going extinct is a bad thing. if we want to save our planet and ourselves, we ll need to stop climate change,
but to do that fossil fuels will have to become a thing of the past. today at the climate conference, the talk is all about energy, and top of the list is phasing out coal. this fossil fuel is the biggest single contributor to climate change, and more than a0 countries have now committed to move away from it. i do believe that the end of coal is in sight. i do believe we are getting to a point where we consign coal power to history. the agreement includes coal reliant countries like poland and south korea, but missing are the us, india and most significantly china, where half of the world s coal is burned. it has the biggest transition, the biggest challenges and needs to really drive a structural change in its energy system. today s precedent and movement really increases the pressure for them to come up with those solutions sooner than later. moving away from coal is the future aim, but what s happening to greenhouse gas emissions now? since the 1990s, carbon dioxide levels have been
reduce their coal use. but as our science correspondent rebecca morelle reports, other big users of coal such china and america haven t signed up to the deal. a dinosaur on the loose at the united nations, but with a message for humanity. listen up, people, i know a thing or two about extinction. going extinct is a bad thing. if we want to save our planet and ourselves, we ll need to stop climate change, but to do that fossil fuels will have to become a thing of the past. today at the climate conference, the talk is all about energy and top of the list is phasing out coal. this fossil fuel is the biggest single contributor to climate change and more than a0 countries have now committed to move away from it. i do believe that the end of coal is in sight. i do believe we are getting to a point where we consign coal power to history. the agreement includes