Glasgow, UK - With the end of COP26 in sight, a Danish and Costa Rican plan to phase out oil and gas gained nine other members on Thursday. But, as with most of the pledges and agreements at the COP26 climate summit, there's still nothing to make countries keep their promises.

Costa Rica and Denmark announced their Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance (BOGA), which caused a massive flood of members of the press desperate for solid climate action.

The two countries were joined by nine other national and subnational governments, including California, even though the US did not join the alliance.

However, BOGA may turn out to be bogus, because the Alliance's "commitments" are not binding, adding to the flood of empty pledges at COP26.

In a similar vein, China hasn’t joined in on many agreements at COP26, despite a surprise announcement with the US on joint climate action.

Meanwhile, the head of the UN, António Guterres, announced that regulations and fact-checking for the finance sector's net-zero pledges will take shape in 2022, but didn't really address why such rules aren't already in place.

What's more, his statement breezily assumed investors will be able to quickly cut fossil fuel entanglements, even though banks continue to pump money into polluting projects and companies.

That makes it 12 days since the COP26 summit started, with no huge deals on key issues. No wonder many participants and activists are frustrated and disillusioned, as climate justice activist Vanessa Nakate made clear, during a speech begging world leaders to prove everyone wrong.