World countries pledge to quit coal

Major coal users, including Poland, Vietnam, and Chile, are committing to shift away from fossil fuel in pledges made at the COP26 climate summit, the UK government says.

Report informs, citing the BBC, that 190 nations and organizations had vowed to quit coal.

Coal is the single biggest contributor to climate change.

Signatories to the agreement have committed to ending all investment in new coal power generation domestically and internationally.

But some of the world's biggest coal-dependent countries, including Australia, India, China, and the US, did not sign up to the pledge.

They have also agreed to phase out coal power in the 2030s for major economies and the 2040s for poorer nations.