India, Jan. 1 -- Global climate action faced another difficult and contentious year at the Conference of Parties (COP30) meet in Brazil. Countries clashed over the need for a binding commitment to transition away from fossil fuels, as well as over demands from the Global South that the Global North do more to finance climate adaptation. In the end, the outcomes of the summit were modest. A call to triple adaptation financing, with funding coming from richer developed nations, was adopted in the final summit declaration. However, as developing nations have long pointed out, earlier funding commitments have not been met. A binding plan to phase out fossil fuels was not adopted, even as climate activists pointed out that COP30 hosted a cohort ...