New Delhi, Nov. 14 -- The Amazon is known as the world's largest river by discharge volume. Its vast waters empty into the Atlantic Ocean precisely where the city of Belem in Brazil sits - the venue for COP30, the Conference of the Parties to the Paris Climate Agreement, being held from 10-21 November.

Against this backdrop of abundant Amazonian waters, the meagre flow of climate finance from the Global North to the Global South will be the single most critical issue threatening the core of negotiations in Belem.

A Chasm of Broken Promises

The Amazon cuts through Brazil, dividing it into North and South. Similarly, broken financial promises by the Global North - stretching from the Kyoto Protocol (1997) to the Paris Agreement (2015) - ...