New Delhi, Nov. 29 -- 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.

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What can a group do when they cannot agree on a plan of action to avert an unfolding tragedy, which is set to worsen? Talk a lot, make plans. and hang in there with a promise to meet again next year! This is what seemed to have happened at the just-concluded annual climate talks at Belem, Brazil. The COP30, or the 30th Conference of the Parties, where 194 countries came together to discuss the worsening climate crisis, failed to achieve what was required: A scaling up of ambitions to reduce carbon emissions and funds for the vulnerable to cope...