On 13 November, as the Cop president Alok Sharma announced the agreement of the Glasgow Climate Pact, he told delegates in a voice thick with emotion that he was “deeply sorry” for the “deep disappointment” many felt that the world would not, thanks to an intervention by India and China, commit to phasing out coal.
Six years ago, Norwegian TV began showing a new drama series called Okkupert (Occupied), in which another politician – the Norwegian prime minister – attempts to take decisive action against fossil fuels. Following extreme weather and flooding, Jesper Berg (played by Henrik Mestad) is elected as the country’s first Green prime minister, having promised to end Norway’s oil and gas exports. But he too finds that the international community will not tolerate such change: an energy crisis quickly develops in the EU and shortly after the announcement he is bundled into a helicopter by Russian soldiers.
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