India in a Warming World

Climate change is a 'wicked' problem--it is riven with scientific uncertainty, contending interests, and competing interpretations. For India, the challenges of addressing climate change are compounded by a sense of injustice - we did not cause the problem -- and immediate challenges of poverty and development. Yet, it is increasingly becoming clear that globally, climate change poses an existential challenge, and, in India, a pathway to development innocent of climate change is no longer possible. How is India facing up to the climate challenge? This volume brings together leading researchers and practitioners - negotiators, activists and policymakers--to lay out the emergent debate on climate change in India. The book covers climate impacts, negotiations, politics, policy, and the integration of climate concerns into sectoral debates, such as on energy and water. Each chapter provides an accessible entry point and a framework for understanding an aspect of India's engagement with climate change. A central theme of the book is that India has shifted from understanding the climate change problem as a diplomatic challenge to increasingly engaging with it as a developmental problem. To address this challenge requires integrating climate change and development, and doing so at multiple scales of governance - national, state, and local.

List of Abbreviations List of Tables and Figures Preface and Acknowledgements Foreword by Nitin Desai 1. India's Evolving Climate Change Debate: From Diplomatic Insulation to Policy Integration by Navroz K. Dubash Section One: Climate Change Impacts 2. Impact of Climate Change on India by J. Srinivasan 3. Changing Climate and Weather: Evidence from Attribution Science by Krishna AchutaRao and Friederike Otto 4. Impacts of Global Warming in India: Narratives from Below by Nagraj Adve Section Two: International Debates and Negotiations 5. Global Warming in an Unequal World: A Case of Environmental Colonialism by Anil Agarwal and Sunita Narain 6. Equity in Long-Term Mitigation by Tejal Kanitkar and T. Jayaraman 7. India's Engagement in Global Climate Negotiations from Rio to Paris by Sandeep Sengupta 8. Present at the Creation: The Making of the Framework Convention on Climate Change by Chandrashekhar Dasgupta 9. One Long Day in Copenhagen by Shyam Saran 10. Reaching Agreement in Paris: A Negotiator's Perspective by Ashok Lavasa 11. India in International Climate Negotiations: Chequered Trajectory by D. Raghunandan 12. Understanding the 2015 Paris Agreement by Lavanya Rajamani 13. India and Paris: A Pragmatic Way Forward by Ajay Mathur 14. Making Sense on its Own Terms: India in the HFC and Aviation Negotiations by Arunabha Ghosh Section Three: Politics 15. Climate Change, Civil Society and Social Movement in India by Pradip Swarnakar />16. Business Action on Climate Change: A Perspective from the Private Sector by Shankar Venkateswaran and Mukund Rajan 17. Energy and Climate Change: A Just Transition for Indian Labour by Ashim Roy, Benny Kuruvilla and Ankit Bhardwaj 18. Looking Out, Looking In: The Shifting Discourse on Climate Change in the Indian Print Media by Anu Jogesh Section Four: Policy 19. National Climate Policies and Institutions by Navroz K. Dubash and Shibani Ghosh 20. From Margins to Mainstream? State Climate Change Planning in India by Navroz K. Dubash and Anu Jogesh 21. State Climate Change Planning: Has it Reached the Mainstream? by Elizabeth Gogoi 22. Climate Finance by Koyel Mandal 23. Managing the Climate Technology Transition by Ambuj Sagar Section Five: Climate and Development 24. Aligning Energy, Development, and Mitigation by Ashok Sreenivas and Ashwin Gambhir 25. Urban India and Climate Change by Radhika Khosla and Ankit Bhardwaj 26. Climate Change and India's Forests by Sharachchandra Lele and Jagdish Krishnaswamy 27. Climate Adaptation in the Water Sector in India by Veena Sreenivasan 28. Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation: Agriculture by K.S. Kavi Kumar and Brinda Viswanathan 29. Shoring up: Climate Change and the Indian Coasts and Islands by Rohan Arthur References About the Editor and Contributors Index

Edited by Navroz K. Dubash Navroz K Dubash is a Professor at the Centre for Policy Research. He has been following and participating in the climate debate as a researcher, policy advisor and activist for over 25 years. In 1990 he was instrumental in establishing the global Climate Action Network and participated in the climate negotiations in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, and has since written widely about climate politics, policy and governance at international, national and local scales. He is currently co-leading a chapter on national climate policies for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He has been involved in informing Indian government policy-making on climate change over the last decade, and is also active in policy committees on energy, air and water policy. He serves on the editorial boards of several journals including Climate Policy (as Associate Editor), Global Environmental Politics, and Energy Research in Social Science. In 2015 he was conferred the 12th T N Khoshoo Memorial Award in recognition of the impact of his work on Indian climate change policy and the international discourse on global climate governance. Dr. Dubash holds an MA and PhD in energy and resources from the University of California, Berkeley, and an AB in public and international affairs from Princeton University.

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