New Delhi, Nov. 15 -- Climate Change and You is a fortnightly newsletter written by Bibek Bhattacharya and Sayantan Bera. Subscribe to the newsletter to get it directly in your inbox.

Dear reader,

It's been exactly a year since Sayantan and I started this newsletter. I can't believe just how fast time has flown by! The first edition of Climate Change and You was published on the eve of the COP29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan. As you read this, COP30 is underway at Belem, a city just on the outskirts of Brazil's Amazon rainforest.

If last year's climate conference was one of trepidation in the wake of Donald Trump's victory in the US presidential elections, this year, we go into COP30 with a slightly clearer vision. After nine mont...