Rory Stewart

But UAE now looks like a sort of beacon of light because in UAE there was an agreement to phase out fossil fuels.

And now in this COP,

We had Russia, Saudi Arabia predictably, but the big thing is India coming out so strongly against any language.

So we end up with a situation in which 80 countries sign up to a roadmap to phase out fossil fuels and 80 countries reject it.

And Brazil got on a total muddle.

You know, was this going to be the implementation cop?

the people's cop, the truth cop.

It was the indigenous cop, wasn't it?

Even Brazil couldn't decide whether what it was doing is selling itself as Lula climate deforestation, or was it Brazil as the major oil producer on the side of the fossil fuels?

I think, again, we've come out of it with Europe being quite well behaved.

They've committed to a 66% reduction by 2030 compared to their levels in 1990, and a 90% reduction

by 2050.

China did make some commitments.

China is not totally like in Saudi India in this, but China's commitment was 10%.

It was well below about a third of what people were pushing for.

The fundamental story remains that every year, we continue to put about two parts per million into the atmosphere.

Every year, we continue to generate about 80% of our energy from fossil fuels.

Even though the renewable bit goes up, the fossil fuel bit goes up just as much as the renewable bit.

And we're not remotely on track for one and a half degrees.

The most you could say, you know, my friend who'd very sweetly been through this whole cop crisis, absolute optimist and wants to believe in it, he said, well, what we achieved is, you know, if it hadn't been for Paris, we would have been on track for four degrees.