Dehradun, Nov. 22 -- The fire that engulfed the main venue of the ongoing Conference of Parties (COP) 30 Climate Summit in Brazil's Belem presented a metaphor not to be missed. As it is, the outcome was hazier than ever before - with the developed nations focusing more on semantics than on real issues. The critical point - that of climate finance - is where the bottleneck persists as before. As pointed out by the Adaptation Gap Report of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) for 2023, of the $310 billion required to address climate issues, the resources committed were just about $26 billion, and, of this, 58% was in the nature of debt. In other words, even in a 'good case scenario', the first world is trying to transfer the climat...