Hurricane Melissa was ravaging the West Indian island of Jamaica the day Arunabha Ghosh, founder and chief executive officer of Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW), a Delhi-based think tank, spoke to S Dinakar over video. Ghosh is also a special envoy for South Asian nations at the Conference of Parties (COP 30), a UN-led global climate summit in Belém, Brazil. He referred to Melissa to underscore the urgency of finding success at the latest COP, beginning 10 November, and why implementation is key to climate mitigation, and what the COP process can do to help South

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