The Guardian's Damian Carrington explains that in relative terms, the agreements and deals made by the 196 nations nudged the world a little closer towards the path to keeping global temperature rises below 1.5C and avoiding the worst of the climate crisis’s impacts. But in absolute terms, there is still a mountain to climb. 

Cop26: the goal of 1.5C of climate heating is alive, but only just
Cop26: where does the world go from here?