9DASHLINE recently had the chance to catch up with Ambika Vishwanath, co-founder and director of the Kubernein Initiative, one of our key partner organisations. Here, we share some of the highlights from our conversation which touched on a range of issues including feminist foreign policy, India-Germany relations, and climate security.
Read MoreWritten by Dr Kei Koga and Dr Karthik Nachiappan
Rather than focusing on divergences between Japan and India or between the G7 and the G20, the areas of convergence (such as energy and food security, inflation, and climate) should be turned into functional linkages.
Read MoreWritten by Dr Dhanasree Jayaram and Megna Suresh
Pre-2020 commitments made under the Kyoto Protocol cannot be wished away. Industrialised countries must be made accountable for their obligations to reduce emissions and provide climate finance, which remain unfulfilled.
Read MoreWritten by Manali Kumar
With the next round of parliamentary elections scheduled for the summer of 2024, Modi is already in campaign mode, and the G20 presidency has all but been declared a success.
Read MoreGiven the poor performance of industrialised countries in delivering promised climate finance, what are the prospects for the loss and damage fund, details of which are to be negotiated at COP28 this year?
Read MoreWritten by Taylah Bland
If the world’s two rivalling superpowers can cooperate on climate change, the rest of the world has no excuse but to join in the effort.
Read MoreWritten by Miriam Prys-Hansen and Jan Phillip Ronde
Progress on the issue of loss and damage could benefit from clear engagement by the ‘in-between powers’ in the Global South, such as India, who may be in a position to exert a decisive influence on the outcomes of the COP27 talks.
Read MoreWritten by Manali Kumar
South Asian countries would do well to finally set aside their mutual animosities and start developing transnational and regional mechanisms to adapt to climate change and recover from disasters.
Read MoreWritten by Miriam Prys-Hansen and Simon Kaack
The need to cooperate in matters of climate change requires partnerships among states, such as India and China, that in other contexts are competitors — if not rivals. This simultaneity of cooperation and competition is one of the key features of the emerging multipolar order and should take centre stage in both policy and academic research.
Read MoreWritten by Clare Richardson-Barlow
The Indo-Pacific region includes several of the world’s largest polluters as well as leaders in renewable energy use and innovative policy solutions to climate and environmental challenges. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) presents great potential for regional responses to the global climate change challenge.
Read MoreChina and the US can suspend the superpower competition with goodwill and scientific imagination to mobilise a techno-war on carbon that will improve the quality of life not just for American and Chinese citizens but also for the planet.
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