India in a Warming World: Integrating Climate Change and DevelopmentNavroz K. Dubash Riven with scientific uncertainty, contending interests, and competing interpretations, the problem of climate change poses an existential challenge. For India, such a challenge is compounded by the immediate concerns of eradicating poverty and accelerating development. Moreover, India has played a relatively limited role thus far in causing the problem. Despite these complicating factors, India has to engage this challenge because a pathway to development innocent of climate change is no longer possible. The volume seeks to encourage public debate on climate change as part of India’s larger development discourse. This volume brings together leading researchers and practitioners—negotiators, activists, and policymakers—to lay out the emergent debate on climate change in India. Through these chapters, the contributors hope to deepen clarity both on why India should engage with climate change and how it can best do so, even while appreciating and representing the challenges inherent in doing so. |
Contents
Impact of Climate Change on India | |
Evidence from Attribution Science | |
Narratives from Below | |
A Case of Environmental Colonialism | |
Equity in LongTerm Mitigation | |
Tables Figures and Boxes | |
India in the HFC and Aviation Negotiations | |
Climate Change Civil Society and Social Movement in India | |
A Perspective from the Private Sector | |
A Just Transition for Indian Labour | |
The Shifting Discourse on Climate Change in the Indian | |
National Climate Policies and Institutions | |
State Climate Change Planning in India | |
Has It Reached the Mainstream? | |
Indias Engagement in Global Climate Negotiations from Rio to Paris | |
The Making of the Framework Convention on Climate | |
One Long Day in Copenhagen | |
A Negotiators Perspective | |
Chequered Trajectory | |
Understanding the 2015 Paris Agreement | |
A Pragmatic Way Forward | |
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