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We agree that the most recent difficult time for the common people was brought on by more expensive vegetables, which made them reflect on what our beloved everyday precious life now entails. The surprising circumstance has become a difficult period to endure. Due to several circumstances, vegetable prices are currently high in several places, including Kanpur.  Various common vegetables are now less available and more expensive because of supply chain disruptions, particularly those caused by the rainy climate. Media do not fail to report that rising vegetable prices are practically putting pressure on household finances, particularly for those with lower incomes. Prices for vegetables vary based on terrain and local market conditions, even though they are often pricey. According to the Economic Survey 2024–25, unfavourable weather conditions, such as unexpected rainfall and prolonged heatwaves, have impacted crop output and created supply shortages, which have forced prices high ...

Settled amount remains woefully paltry


What is this promise to provide $300 billion? Some countries were quick to criticise the approval of money without claiming it was too little. Despite this distinct assistance, the countries did not consider it pertinent to return the amount metaphorically like a periodic covert calculation. 

This engaging reflection was neither noticed as dynamic nor weakened for approximately no good reasonable cause. Though aspects of this financial help stands knowingly very much definitive, it was genuinely realised as socially performative. It also stands as a real shot at resolving climatic concerns. As was already conceded, the annual aid passage is like more like a wicked stepmother. 

The financial help for the crucial problem of deteriorating climate was not very distinct but contains the mixed conditions. It falls far short of the $1.3 trillion that the developing countries solicited but is three times the $100-a-year deal from year 2009 that is on the verge of lapsing. 

If one lauds it as an insurance policy for humanity, another defined it as a critical eleventh deal for the climate. Third one went on saying that people demanded a life raft but had been given a plank instead of wood. Fourth said it was a death sentence for many more even millions and a mere fraction of what was required.

 Policy analyst said: “While experts touted needs around one trillion dollars annually for the new collective quantified goal, an agreement for $300bn was reached – a mere fraction of the finance we had desperately  needed.

Quite easily Jasper Inventor, head of the COP 29 Greenpeace delegation, articulated: The settled finance goal is woefully inadequate and overshadowed by the level of despair and scale of action required.

Poor nations from Cuba to India criticized the agreement as being too little, too late, despite the Western world's commitment to provide $300 billion annually to support emissions reduction and climate adaptation in the poor world starting in the year 2035. Behind an edgy few days of discussions, the deal was eventually done with considerable completion.

Meanwhile, India’s representative Chandni Raina has reportedly slammed the $300 billion as abysmally poor and a paltry sum, calling the agreement nothing more than an optical illusion and unfit to address the monstrosity of the challenge we all are bound to face.

The outcome offers false hope to those already bearing the brunt of climate disasters,” said Harjeet Singh of the Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative. We must persist in our fight, demanding a significant increase in financing and holding developed countries to account, he added.

These past few days have been tumultuous, with examples when it seemed like the talks may finish. Rich industrialized nations like the US, Japan, and the EU made an offer of $250 billion annually starting in the year 2035, which developing countries rejected as a joke.

Hitting out at a “woefully inadequate” financial package for developing nations agreed at COP 29 – with one charity cursed it as a death sentence for millions.  A $300bn (£239.5bn) deal to help fight the impact of global warming was reported at the Baku summit in Azerbaijan.

True opponents are the fossil fuel merchants of despair and brash nature destroyers who conceal snugly behind every government’s low climate ambition. Their lobbyists must be disallowed and leaders need to summon the courage to get on the right side of history. 

However, Joe Biden said that while substantial work remained to be done, the conference had set an ambitious international climate finance objective. While some may seek to deny or delay the clean energy revolution that’s underway in America and around the world, nobody can change it – nobody, the US president proclaimed.

Friends of Earth head of policy Mike Childs credited the UK delegation for recreating a productive role in the talks but cautioned that they forgot to unravel the question of climate finance.

Developing countries are being battered by climate extremes now, mostly fuelled by the current and historic polluting activities of rich nations, like the UK.

A spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion said “Cop 29 has failed,” adding: “The clue is in the name.

“Next year countries will try for the 30th time. What is clear is the era of oil and gas must end: fast, fairly and forever.

If the fossil fuel industry thrives, billions suffer. Rich nations must stop and instead provide grants. Anything less is a death sentence for the planet and the people on it.

The COP29 climate conference ran on as negotiators from nearly 200 countries worked to gain an accord on a climate funding plan for the next decade. The result remains "reflective of the harder geopolitical terrain the world finds itself in,” said Li Shuo of the Asia Society. 

He cited Trump’s recent victory in the US – with his promises to pull the country out of the Paris Agreement – as one reason why the relationship between China and the EU will become more influential for global climate politics.

Will a call for all parties to work together using all public and private sources to get nearer to the original trillion-dollar-per-year goal by 2035?

Views are supporting the conference's step toward helping countries create more ambitious targets to limit or cut emissions of heat-trapping gases. That is part of the plan to keep cutting pollution with new targets every five years, which the world agreed to at the UN talks in Paris in the 2015 Paris Agreement. 

It has put the system of regular raising up climate-fighting ambition as a way to keep warming under 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. The world is already at 1.3C and carbon emissions keep increasing.



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