A plan for India

The key recommendations mentioned in the final statement of the conference on “Climate Change and Sustainable Development: Equity and Post-2015 Challenge” held at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, in August:

• By offering bold and ambitious mitigation commitments, India should be seen as being part of the solution.
• India should not be defensive about advancing the equity argument but aggressively push it so that it becomes central to the negotiations.
• India should engage with various country groups proactively to come up with a formulation of an equity structure that would be acceptable to most developing countries.