India, Nov. 18 -- The agreement from Belem, which promised to restore multilateralism in a geopolitically difficult year, has started taking shape.

On Tuesday, COP30 host Brazil proposed the draft text of "Global Mutirao: uniting humanity in a global mobilisation against climate change". This draft is based on the four outstanding issues that were part of COP30 Presidency consultations, two of these were pushed by the Global South and two others by the Global North and vulnerable island nations. These have been extremely contentious issues because of their impact on the development space available for developing countries like India.

The draft text covers implementation of Article 9.1 of the Paris Agreement which mandates that rich nati...