Evaluation of India’s early position in Climate Change Regime

Abstract

India is always regarded as a representative voice of the global South. During the cold war, under the auspices of Non-alignment Movement, India emerged as a beacon for newly born Asian, African and Latin countries. India played a crucial role in the international negotiations for ‘New Economic World Order’ and the Vienna Convention. India successfully articulated and safeguarded the interests of developing countries in the ‘Montreal Protocol’. With the emergence of the climate change regime, the Global South was under immense pressure from the global North to take mitigation commitment to avert climate change. During the INC negotiations, India’s foreign climate diplomacy and its position at negotiations played a decisive role in fostering of the convention. To what extent India represented the global South and achieved its interest in the INC negotiation? It can be unveiled by analyzing the early position of India in INC negotiations. An attempt has been made by this paper to explore the early Indian position to reach the answers of said questions