The resolution of COP26 has caused a rift between those trying to determine its success. There is no doubt that the conference, which scrambled to a last-minute deal on Saturday night, fell short of putting the world on a pathway to keeping climate change below 1.5 degrees Celsius. Nor has it put an end to coal or fossil fuel subsidies. But with politics playing an ever-diminishing role in global decarbonization, the monumental shift in rhetoric has kept the door open for a just transition to green energy. Dismissing COP26 as a failure would be an unfair assessment. Under the Presidency of the UK’s Alok Sharma, the conference was always bound to be a difficult procedure, in difficult geopolitical times. Indeed,…