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This book analyses the role of the BASIC countries - Brazil, South Africa, India and China - in the international climate order. Climate Diplomacy and Emerging Economies explores the collective and individual positions of these countries towards climate diplomacy, focusing in particular on the time period between the 2009 and 2019 climate summits in Copenhagen and Madrid. Dhanasree Jayaram examines the key drivers behind their climate-related policies (both domestic and international) and explores the contributory role of ideational and material factors (and the interaction between them) in shaping the climate diplomacy agenda at multilateral, bilateral and other levels. Digging deeper into the case study of India, Jayaram studies the shifts in its climate diplomacy by looking into the ways in which climate change is framed and analyses the variations in perceptions of the causes of climate change, the solutions to it, the motivations for setting climate action goals, and the methods to achieve the goals. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change, environmental policy and politics and IR more broadly.

AbstractClimate change is increasingly shaping security narratives, including military strategy. While considering climate change a security issue, the military's role in this discourse and praxis becomes critical as a security actor. However, the interrelationships between climate change, security and the military are conceived and approached by different states diversely. Within different states, this triangular relationship is guided by processes with varied practical/policy implications. While 'securitization' has generally been used to explain climate security, other processes such as 'climatization' have assumed significance, wherein security practices are climatized. The Indian military too has been engaging with security implications of climate change, but by using approaches distinct from Western states, which have been the usual focus in such analyses. In this paper, the framework of climatization is used to analyse the triangular relationship, using the case study of the Indian military—by categorizing climatizing moves as symbolic, strategic, precautionary and transformative.

This article has attempted to analyse the Indian establishment's reinvigorated renewable energy strategy, with a special focus on the climate diplomacy efforts of the current Government under Prime Minister Modi. It has also tried to throw light on the rationale for the Indian establishment's push for clean energy in the national and global contexts i.e., setting in motion an energy revolution that Prime Minister Modi terms, "saffron revolution". This article goes a step further and cites the cases of the International Solar Alliance and Indo-German cooperation as examples of India's successful climate diplomacy, based on a pragmatic and result-oriented approach, working towards common goals and co-benefits. Although clean energy includes nuclear energy (as emphasised by the Government of India as well), this article has specifically dealt with issues surrounding renewable energy only, with greater focus on solar energy and the electricity sector (with a few references to other sectors and renewable sources of energy).

This article examines China and India's status-seeking efforts in Southeast Asia through the lens of disaster relief cooperation. It explores status-seeking processes and the region's responses, as well as how these shape the regional security order in the Asia-Pacific. We argue that the outcomes of China and India's status-seeking are determined by their own behaviours and the region's interpretations of them. Our analysis reveals that China seeks to elevate its status to become a leading security partner of Southeast Asia, which has only been partially accepted by the region, as demonstrated by its active and institutionalized cooperation with ASEAN but its haphazard bilateral HADR engagement with individual Southeast Asian countries. Meanwhile, India has gone from a low-key player to an important partner, primarily in military terms, as shown by its membership in regional multilateral institutions, the holding of regular bilateral exercises and an acceptance by Southeast Asian states of the deployment of its military for HADR missions. (Contemp Southeast Asia / GIGA)

Au niveau international, nous observons une tendance à la « régionalisation » de la sécurité environnementale, au sein de laquelle les forces armées prennent de l'importance. L'Asie du Sud présente à ce titre de nombreuses vulnérabilités environnementales qui se mêlent aux dynamiques (géo)politiques. Il y existe par ailleurs des structures qui impliquent des coopérations militaires et qui favorisent la sécurité environnementale. L'article se penche ainsi sur le discours de la sécurité environnementale « régionale » dans le contexte de l'Asie du Sud. Il analyse en particulier les modèles de conflit et de coopération, en utilisant les cas du conflit du glacier de Siachen et de l'Assistance humanitaire et des secours en cas de catastrophe ( Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief , HADR). L'article présente les dimensions militaires de la sécurité environnementale en Asie du Sud et soutient que ces modèles indiquent une tendance à la régionalisation de la coopération.

Der "Tag Null" als Symbol für letzte Möglichkeiten der Umkehr im Klimaregime erfährt weltweit große Verbreitung. Eigentlich müsste sich auch Indien auf eine große Wasserkrise vorbereiten. Vernetzte Politikansätze, Programme zum Engagement lokaler Gemeinschaften bis hin zur internationalen Zusammenarbeit stünden an. Was ist davon in Indien vorzufinden?

India, being one of the most ecologically diverse countries in the world, is at the same time considered one of the most vulnerable countries, in relation to the adverse effects of climate change. One of the most threatened bio-geomorphologic features of India is its coral reefs; which are increasingly being affected by rising surface sea temperatures, ocean acidification and other direct/indirect impacts of global warming induced climate change. India is home to both fringing reefs (around the islands in the Gulf of Mannar, Gulf of Kachchh, Andaman and Nicobar Islands) and atolls (Lakshadweep). With the gradual unravelling of the geophysical cum geochemical impacts of climate change on these reefs, the security implications -especially on human security- are hard to ignore in a highly uncertain period, called nonetheless as the Anthropocene.