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‘Watered-down hope’: Experts wanted more from climate pact

FILE - John Kerry, second right, United States Special Presidential Envoy for Climate walks with, from left, Brazil's Minister of the Environment Joaquim Alvaro Pereira Leite, European Commissioner for European Green Deal Frans Timmermans and China's Special Envoy for Climate Change and Chief Negotiator Xie Zhenhua before the closing plenary session at the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit, in Glasgow, Scotland, Saturday, Nov. 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File) FILE - A thermometer records just below 100 degrees in a north Seattle neighborhood Wednesday afternoon, July 29, 2009, approaching record highs. While world leaders hail the 2021 Glasgow climate pact as a good compromise that keeps a key temperature limit alive, scientists are much more skeptical. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File) FILE - Youth climate activists protest that representatives of the fossil fuel industry have been allowed inside the venue during the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland, Thursday, Nov. 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File) Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a press conference in Downing Street, London, Sunday, Nov. 14, 2021 about the Cop26 climate summit. (Daniel Leal/Pool photo via AP) FILE - Patricia Espinosa, UNFCCC Executive-Secretary speaks during the Procedural Opening of the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland, Sunday, Oct. 31, 2021. U.N. climate chief Patricia Espinosa was not happy with a last-minute fight over coal that ended in a compromise at the Glasgow climate talks. Still, she's satisfied, calling the final Glasgow Climate Pact a good compromise, said in an interview with The Associated Press Sunday Nov. 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali, Pool, File) Climate activists hold a demonstration through the venue of the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland, Friday, Nov. 12, 2021. Negotiators from almost 200 nations were making a fresh push Friday to reach agreements on a series of key issues that would allow them to call this year's U.N. climate talks a success. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)