ABSTRACT
The debate on multilateral action on climate change between the developed and developing countries has been sharply polarized for a long-time. If one may mix a metaphor with a descriptive term, India has been in the eye of this storm since the beginning of multilateral concern on climate change in the 1980s, since it has invariably and forcefully brought in the ‘development’ and ‘poverty eradication’ sides of the argument, and seems not to buy into the response from many developed countries that the concern for the preservation of the planet’s present climate supersedes the former, or that aggressive climate action is consistent with maintaining, or even enhancing growth rates and poverty eradication efforts.
