(Adds dropped word ‘draft’ in headline)

GLASGOW (Reuters – Friday’s UN climate summit draft was made public. The document contained a weaker language about the phasing off fossil fuels in an attempt to get agreement from nearly 200 of the countries represented at Glasgow.

Two words were added to the new draft about fossil fuels. This was in contrast with an earlier draft that had stated baldly that the world must pledge not to continue subsidizing fossil fuels and should be phased out.

The text now includes “unabated”, which refers to coal before it was mined, as well as the elimination of subsidies that are “inefficient” for fossil fuels.

Arab nations are major producers of oil and natural gas. They had previously objected the wording of the previous draft.

Now, the paragraph reads “(COP26), calls upon Parties (and all other parties) to accelerate the deployment, dissemination, and acceleration of technologies, and adopt policies for the transition toward low-emission systems. This includes rapid scaling up of clean power generation, acceleration of the phase-out unabated coal power, and inefficient subsidies of fossil fuels.