COP29’s Baku finance goal triples climate finance target, draws mixed reactions from developing nations

Despite objections by developing nations, including India, expressing dissatisfaction with the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) owing to its “paltry size”, the COP29 Presidency of Azerbaijan on Saturday, November 23, announced the agreement of the Baku Finance Goal, a new commitment to channel $1.3 trillion of climate finance to the developing world by 2035 in significant uplift.

This includes a new core finance goal of $300 billion that triples the previous $100 billion target. There were breakthroughs in the Baku Finance Goal and UN carbon markets too.

Into the mind of DonaldTrump via Pulitzer winner David Cay Johnston

By Mayank Chhaya- If there is anyone who can speak authoritatively on former President Donald Trump’s skulduggeries it is Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and writer David Cay Johnston. David, often described as “dean of Trumpologists”, has reported on Trump since 1988 with withering scrutiny. With barely two weeks to go for the presidential election on November […]

Hyderabad Beyond Biriyani

By Mayank Chhaya- There is much more to Hyderabad than the wafting fragrance of its iconic biriyani, its Dakkhani cadence and the once fabled riches of the Nizam. The 430-year-old city has seen a great deal of history and traveled through four centuries of tumult to emerge as one of India’s two defining information technology […]

Sri Lanka’s crucial presidential election

By Mayank Chhaya- As Sri Lanka holds a crucial presidential election on September 21, the economically troubled Indian Ocean Island nation is staring at multifarious challenges, the chief among them being its serious debt crisis. The spectacularly beautiful tropical island of 22 million people has to decide whether it wants to radically detach itself from […]