New Delhi, Dec. 12 -- The feeble outcomes of this year's UN climate summit, CoP-30, held at Belem in Brazil were a reflection of today's geopolitical realities. The US does not recognize the threat of global warming, while several other large economies like Russia, China and India are in no mood to embark on a roadmap to phase out fossil fuels.

This does little to counter nature's response to the rise in heat-trapping carbon and methane emissions, seen in all kinds of environmental disasters like forest fires stoked by drought and increasingly heavy rainfall and floods.

Earlier this week, the EU's Earth observation service Copernicus noted that for the first time, a three-year average from 2023 to 2025 is about to exceed the 1.5deg Cels...