There's dearth of will to address climate crisis

The climate summit, COP29, in Baku, has ended. It lays bare the fundamental inequity and the lack of willingness of the developed world to acknowledge its role in climate change.

- Bharati Chaturvedi

That is why the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and Small Island Nations had to walk out in protest because the wealthy nations offered just $200 million funds. The ask from the developing world was $1.3 trillion. At protests before the final days, civil society demanded trillions, not billions, grants not loans. At the end, despite the high drama, all the victims of climate change got was $