The Centre for Social and Economic Progress (CSEP) is delighted to host a webinar on India’s Global Climate Diplomacy on Tuesday, November 21, 2023. The discussion will be based on chapter contributions to CSEP’s edited report titled “Tracks to Transition: India’s Global Climate Strategy” by Constantino Xavier, Fellow, CSEP and Karthik Nachiappan, Research Fellow, Institute of South Asia Studies, National University of Singapore (ISAS-NUS) and Non-Resident Fellow, CSEP. The authors will focus on three frameworks of India’s climate engagement  – minilateral, trilateral and bilateral.

Climate change is one of the defining challenges of our time, and diplomacy plays a significant role in addressing this global crisis. India has played a crucial role in global climate engagement with its evolving diplomatic strategies. This webinar will delve into India-centric discussions around the emerging and critical frameworks of the International Solar Alliance (ISA), triangular climate cooperation where India can act as a bridge between the Global North and South, and bilateral climate engagements with the European Union (EU). This discussion will also touch on the upcoming COP28 and how these multiple frameworks of engagements may shape India’s diplomatic stance in Dubai on climate mitigation and adaptation.

Speakers

• Axel Nordenstam is a doctoral student in International Relations, the Department of Economic History and International Relations, Stockholm University. He is also an Associate Fellow with the Asia Program, the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) and a Visiting Fellow, Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW). His research interests encompass India-EU relations, Indo-Pacific, and India’s green foreign policy.
• Pooja Ramamurthi is an Associate Fellow at the Centre for Social and Economic Progress. She holds a PhD in Public Policy from the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. She has also received her double master’s degree in Sustainable Energy from the Royal institute of Technology, Sweden and Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal via the Innoenergy scholarship granted by the European Union. She studies climate and energy transition policy, particularly focusing on the role that India can play in accelerating domestic and international action towards decarbonisation.
• Vyoma Jha is a Senior Advocate at Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), where she leads the work on climate goals and global engagement, clean energy, and clean transportation for the India program. She received her doctorate degree in law and political economy from Stanford University, and holds law degrees from Stanford Law School, New York University School of Law, and National Law University, Jodhpur. She writes and teaches on issues of climate change law and policy, international economic law and its linkages with climate change, and India’s energy foreign policy. She is the author of The Making of the International Solar Alliance: India’s Moment in the Sun (Oxford University Press, 2023.

Moderator

• Anindita Sinh is a Research Analyst in the Foreign Policy and Security Studies vertical where she conducts research on climate policy, critical minerals security and global governance. She holds a Masters in International Relations and Area Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and a B.A. Honours in Liberal Arts from Symbiosis International University, Pune. Apart from climate governance, her areas of interests include geopolitical developments in East and Southeast Asia, non-traditional security, soft power and cultural diplomacy.

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