Author: Uday Kumar Varma

As the sun rose on the arid Dubai sky on the morning of December 13, COP28 concluded approving a deal on transition away from fossil fuels. That transition would be in a way that gets the world to net zero greenhouse gas emissions in 2050 and follows the dictates of climate science. Called a global stocktake and arrived at after bitter and often angry haggling over the proposed draft agreement the whole of the previous night, it was one of the tamest expressions of world resolve to deal with environmental issues. “It is a plan that is led by the…