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QUESTION BEFORE AZERBAIJAN CLIMATE MEET – By N.S.Venkataraman The next global climate meet  (COP 29)  is scheduled to take place in Azerbaijan in November, 2024.  While global climate meetings  have  taken place 28 times so far in different countries, these meetings have been marked by  much fanfare,  tall talk, impressive targets  and  some action plans too,  particularly with regard to funding  by developed countries to less developed countries. Rising global temperature : However,  the ground reality is that  in spite of such deliberations and action plans initiated during the global climate meetings , the global temperature is continuing to increase .  As a result, erratic climatic and weather conditions are already witnessed in several parts of the  world.  It is now predicted by World Meteorological Organisation  (WMO)  that the world would witness record high temperature that  will be above the 1991 – 2020  reference period until    the year 2028.  The ...