Indonesia, Poland, Vietnam and other nations pledged on Thursday to phase out use of coal-fired power and stop building plants, in a deal at the COP26 climate summit that failed to win support from the United States and large coal consumers such as China. Britain has said one of its main aims for the United Nations summit is “consigning coal power to history”. The deal saw 23 nations making new commitments, a move the president of the COP26 summit, Alok Sharma, said put the end of coal “in sight”. Some of the world’s biggest coal-dependent nations, such as China and India, were notable in their absence, raising the question of whether COP26 had underwhelmed on the drive to consign the most polluting fossil fuel to history. “Today I think we can say that the end of coal is in sight,” Sharma told the Glasgow […]