India in a warming world : integrating climate change and development Riven with scientific uncertainty contending interests and competing interpretations climate change today poses an existential challenge. For India such a challenge is compounded by the immediate concerns of eradicating poverty and accelerating development. Moreover India has played a relatively limited role thus far in causing the problem. Despite these complicating factors India has to engage this challenge because a pathway to development innocent of climate change is no longer possible. To do so requires stimulating conversation on climate change as part of India’s larger development discourse. This volume brings together leading researchers and practitioners—negotiators activists and policymakers—to lay out the emergent debate on climate change in India. Through these chapters the contributors hope to deepen clarity both on why India should engage with climate change and how it can best do so even while appreciating and representing the challenges inherent in doing so.