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The fortnight-long conference at El-Shaikh in Egypt had been considered a ‘CoP of Implementation’ but it has little else to show at the end. There was limited progress on action to be taken to keep temperatures from rising beyond 1.5 degrees Celsius from pre-industrial levels. There was hardly any progress on how the world could put an end to the use of all forms of fossil fuels, not just coal. Countries had agreed to phase down the use of coal at the last CoP at Glasgow. At Sharm El-Sheikh, there was no agreement on a proposal made by India and other developing countries for adoption of a wider and more aggressive fossil-fuel reduction strategy.