On Saturday night in Glasgow, Scotland, the Twenty-Sixth Conference of the Parties (COP26) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) drew to a close with the announcement that world leaders had struck a deal after two weeks of intense negotiations. Called the Glasgow Climate Pact, the agreement broadly addressed reducing emissions, expanding renewable energy efforts, and increasing funding for global climate action.

“We can now say with credibility that we have kept [the goal of keeping global warming within] 1.5 degrees alive,” announced COP26 president Alok Sharma in a statement.

The breakthrough arrived with little fanfare. By that point, most of the 20,000 attendees from nearly 200 countries had already departed the climate summit, and the streets of Glasgow were largely clear of the hundreds of protesters who had gathered outside the conference, waving signs declaring “Code Red for Humanity” and “Follow the Science.”