India, Dec. 10 -- For countries like India to have cleaner futures, climate agreements must walk the talk; not just talk the talk

Another Conference of Parties (CoP 25); this time in Madrid . But with a difference. This time, there is near consensus that climate change is real .

Everyone now believes that it is time to act. No more procrastination. Or so, you would think.

The fact is in Madrid, new games are being played out to circumvent action - or at least to find ways to do as little as possible and as cheaply as possible. The new buzzword is to develop credible market mechanisms, which are needed to make countries carbon-neutral, or net zero . Big and nice sounding words. But as they say there is many a slip between the cup and th...