India, March 12 -- There was no formal objection to the decision on the New Collective Quantified Goal at COP29 in Baku last year, Yalchin Rafiyev, Lead Negotiator for COP29 Azerbaijan said in among the first comments by the organisers on the controversial climax to the talks.

HT reported on November 25 that the COP29 climate talks ended in unprecedented acrimony even as India led a fierce pushback against what it called a "stage-managed" climate finance deal, moments after the Azerbaijan Presidency hastily gavelled through a contentious proposal amid celebrations, with UN and COP29 Presidency officials embracing.

India sought the floor before the decision was adopted but the cue was not given to India. This led to gavelling of an NCQG ...