Energy Prices And Climate Concerns Clash At COP26

This weekend, the leaders of the 20 largest economies in the world pledged to limit the rise of average global temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius from pre-industrial times. Also this weekend, U.S. President Joe Biden urged the oil and gas producing members of the group to increase output amid soaring prices.

  And he wasn't the only one. The 1.5-degree commitment and the call for more fossil fuel production are so at odds that they would confuse anyone, especially since the climate crisis is routinely referred to as existential. And the action…