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Contents: Foreword by Nitin Desai. Preface. 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/Srinivasan. 3. Changing Climate and Weather: Evidence from Attribution Science/Krishna Achuta Rao 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/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.