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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.
Contents
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
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About the Editor and Contributors
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