In the last year or so, India has signalled a subtle but important shift in the way it views the climate crisis and how it wants to deal with it. The country has questioned the “excessive preoccupation” of the international climate regime to achieve a specific temperature goal and argued that for developing countries like itself, adaptation must take precedence over reducing emissions. India has also emphasised that rapid economic growth is the best defence against climate change for developing countries. Therefore, restrictions that constrain economic growth, such as curbs on the use of coal to generate electricity, are unacceptable….