Climate Change

In the wake of the Gyari incident, India and Pakistan need to conduct more joint scientific studies and put in place an AGPL agreement within a reasonable time frame.

• P. K. Gautam
• April 25, 2012
• IDSA Comments

While international negotiations are important in dealing with climate change, nothing worthwhile can be achieved without public participation and concerted local action.

• P. K. Gautam
• April 20, 2012
• IDSA Comments

This article outlines the National Solar Mission's role as India's major climate change mitigation policy, arguing that India's National Solar Mission (NSM) was initially conceived to bolster India's position against legally binding commitments on carbon emissions. However, the NSM also has twin objectives in energy security. Progress in the NSM is outlined before its problems are examined in order to clarify how the Indian government may direct its development to fulfil energy security and energy access goals.

• Nigel Singh
• March 2012
• Strategic Analysis

It is now commonly accepted that small island countries are facing an existential threat because of global warming and the consequent rise in the level of the oceans.

• P. K. Gautam
• January 2012
• Strategic Analysis

Climate change discussions may not have collapsed but difficult and bruising negotiations lie ahead and there will be immense pressure on developing countries to accept legally binding cuts.

• Arvind Gupta , Akash S. Goud
• December 21, 2011
• IDSA Comments

The success of the visit was limited to strengthening links of economic diplomacy between the two Asian giants, ignoring the geo-political and strategic issues that act as de-stabilisers in Sino-Indian relations.

• Jagannath P. Panda , R N Das , Priyanka Pandit , Vidya Krishnamurty
• January 07, 2011
• Issue Brief

Fractious domestic politics and lack of consensus at the international level are stumbling blocks before Maldives’ campaign on climate change.

• Anand Kumar
• December 20, 2010
• IDSA Comments

With the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol expiring in 2012, time seems to be running out for a new successor agreement. The Protocol remains the most comprehensive attempt to negotiate binding limits on anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The long-term challenge, defined by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), is to stabilise GHG concentration in the atmosphere at levels that would prevent interference with the climate system. There are, however, economic and social realities that drive anthropogenic GHG emissions.

• Uttam Kumar Sinha
• November 2010
• Strategic Analysis

This report summarizes the conclusions of a study that was initiated earlier this year on the future of India United States relations in the coming decade.

• United States , Europe , Nuclear Cluster
• October 29, 2010
• Policy Brief

Global warming-induced accessibility has drawn many actors to the Arctic zone, seeking to establish exclusive sovereign rights over its many natural endowments.

• Kalyani Unkule
• September 28, 2010
• IDSA Comments