Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 04/2010

Understanding India's Climate Agenda

Noriko Fujiwara, Christian Egenhofer

February 2010

Centre for European Policy Studies

Abstract

This new Policy Brief by CEPS Fellows, Noriko Fujiwara and Christian Egenhofer, discusses some of the factors that are key to understanding India's climate agenda with an emphasis on the country's challenges in development, adaptation, energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. The Policy Brief summarises a CEPS study and accompanies CEPS Working Document No. 325 on the Political Economy of India's Climate Agenda.