Frances Colón is senior director for international climate policy at the Center for American Progress. A science, technology, and environmental policy expert, she served on the State Department review team for the Biden-Harris transition. In the Obama administration, Colón was deputy science and technology adviser to the secretary of state, promoting integration of science and technology into foreign policy, advancement of women in science, and climate policy for the president’s Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas. Colón was a City of Miami Climate Resilience Committee member and a 2020 Yale-OpEd Project Public Voices on the Climate Crisis fellow. A member of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability, she co-chairs its Global Science Diplomacy Roundtable.
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For most nations, there exists a significant chasm between their net zero targets and the climate financing necessary to reach their ambitious goals. For India, $10.1 trillion...