Although climate change is a global phenomenon, there is a climate divide based on power. The variegated geographies of globalization will map a climate spectrum in which there will be leaders and laggards in the downstream adaptation end to ones which are leaders in the transition.

There is an implicit expectation that the climate journey towards net positive will be linear and uniform. Like development, it will be refracted through the residues of colonialism and capitalism, with power at the heart of it.