India, Dec. 2 -- If the stalemate in global climate negotiations is one of the defining failures of our time, University of Amsterdam professor Joyeeta Gupta has spent three decades dissecting why. Why do climate summits repeatedly fail to deliver meaningful action? How can wealthy nations and developing countries bridge competing interests? Who should bear the costs of a crisis they didn't equally cause? Her 1997 doctoral research was the first to systematically explore these North-South negotiation dynamics, establishing the analytical framework that still shapes climate diplomacy today. Her work revealed how historical inequities and current power imbalances doom consensus-insights that have only grown more urgent as UN Climate Conferenc...