The climate finance agreement agreed at Cop29 is a “travesty of justice” and should never have been adopted, negotiators from some countries have said. The Guardian reports that.

The climate conference ended in dramatic fashion in the early hours of Sunday morning when negotiators reached an agreement to triple the flow of climate finance to poor countries.

Developing countries had called on rich nations to provide them with $1.3 trillion a year to help them decarbonize their economies and cope with the effects of the climate crisis. But the final agreement set the pledge at just $300 billion a year, with only $1.3 trillion as the target.

That figure exceeds the previous pledge of $100 billion India's negotiator Chandni Raina said it was “woefully short.”

For Raina, who is an adviser to India's economic affairs department, it was not just the target itself but the process by which it was concluded that drew anger.

Drafts of the agreement were circulated before it was made available to the public, and there were rumors of last-minute backroom deals being made.

Raina said the UN framework convention on climate change should take decisions by consensus. India had planned to make a special statement before the decision was made but was not given the opportunity to do so.

Raina said the $300 billion pledge was “staged”. “This document is nothing more than an optical illusion,” she said.

Raina called the adoption of the target “outrageous.” “It was a complete travesty of justice,” she said.