India in a Warming World

Description

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.

About the Editor

Navroz K. Dubash is professor at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, India.

Contributors

Krishna AchutaRao; Nagraj Adve; Anil Agarwal; Rohan Arthur;Ankit Bhardwaj; Chandrashekhar Dasgupta; Navroz K. Dubash; Ashwin Gambhir; Arunabha Ghosh; Shibani Ghosh; Elizabeth Gogoi; T. Jayaraman; Anu Jogesh; Tejal Kanitkar; Radhika Khosla; Jagdish Krishnaswamy; K.S. Kavi Kumar; Benny Kuruvilla; Ashok Lavasa; Sharachchandra Lele; Koyel Kumar Mandal; Ajay Mathur; Sunita Narain; Friederike Otto; D. Raghunandan; Lavanya Rajamani; Mukund Rajan; Ashim Roy; Ambuj Sagar; Shyam Saran; Sandeep Sengupta; Ashok Sreenivas; J. Srinivasan; Veena Srinivasan; Pradip Swarnakar; Shankar Venkateswaran; Brinda Viswanathan

Table of contents

List of Tables, Figures, and Boxes

Foreword by Nitin Desai

Preface

List of Abbreviations

1. An Introduction to India’s Evolving Climate Change Debate: From Diplomatic Insulation to Policy Integration

Navroz K. Dubash

SECTION I: CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS

2. Impact of Climate Change on India
3. Srinivasan

3. Changing Climate and Weather: Evidence from Attribution Science

Krishna AchutaRao and Friederike Otto

4. Impacts of Global Warming in India: Narratives from Below

Nagraj Adve

SECTION II: INTERNATIONAL DEBATES AND NEGOTIATIONS

5. Global Warming in an Unequal World: A Case of Environmental Colonialism

Anil Agarwal and Sunita Narain

6. Equity in Long-Term Mitigation

Tejal Kanitkar and T. Jayaraman

7. India’s Engagement in Global Climate Negotiations from Rio to Paris

Sandeep Sengupta

8. Present at the Creation: The Making of the Framework Convention on Climate Change

Chandrashekhar Dasgupta

9. One Long Day in Copenhagen

Shyam Saran

10. Reaching Agreement in Paris: A Negotiator’s Perspective

Ashok Lavasa

11. India in International Climate Negotiations: Chequered Trajectory
12. Raghunandan

12. Understanding the 2015 Paris Agreement

Lavanya Rajamani

13. India and Paris: A Pragmatic Way Forward

Ajay Mathur

14. Making Sense on Its Own Terms: India in the HFC and Aviation Negotiations

Arunabha Ghosh

SECTION III: POLITICS

15. Climate Change, Civil Society, and Social Movement in India

Pradip Swarnakar

16. Business Action on Climate Change: A Perspective from the Private Sector

Shankar Venkateswaran and Mukund Rajan

17. Energy and Climate Change: A Just Transition for Indian Labour

Ashim Roy, Benny Kuruvilla, and Ankit Bhardwaj

18. Looking Out, Looking In: The Shifting Discourse on Climate Change in the Indian Print Media

Anu Jogesh

SECTION IV: POLICY

19. National Climate Policies and Institutions

Navroz K. Dubash and Shibani Ghosh

20. From Margins to Mainstream?: State Climate Change Planning in India

Navroz K. Dubash and Anu Jogesh

21. State Climate Change Planning: Has It Reached the Mainstream?

Elizabeth Gogoi

22. Climate Finance

Koyel Kumar Mandal

23. Managing the Climate Technology Transition

Ambuj Sagar

SECTION V: CLIMATE AND DEVELOPMENT

24. Aligning Energy, Development, and Mitigation

Ashok Sreenivas and Ashwin Gambhir

25. Urban India and Climate Change

Radhika Khosla and Ankit Bhardwaj

26. Climate Change and India’s Forests

Sharachchandra Lele and Jagdish Krishnaswamy

27. Climate Adaptation in the Water Sector in India

Veena Srinivasan

28. Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation: Agriculture

K.S. Kavi Kumar and Brinda Viswanathan

29. Shoring Up: Climate Change and the Indian Coasts and Islands

Rohan Arthur

Index

Notes on Editor and Contributors