Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/310989 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Citation: 
[Journal:] Journal of Social and Economic Development [ISSN:] 2199-6873 [Volume:] 25 [Issue:] 1 [Publisher:] Springer India [Place:] New Delhi [Year:] 2023 [Pages:] 86-102
Publisher: 
Springer India, New Delhi
Abstract: 
Until the late 1990s, developing countries had perceived the pursuit of development as coming into conflict with the mitigation of climate change. Research showed that mitigation and development can go hand in hand, giving rise to the co-benefits approach. In this paper, the relationship between aiming for development and aiming for climate change mitigation is analyzed from the perspective of the developing country India. While industrialized countries prefer the approach of co-benefits of mitigation, developing countries tend to follow the development-first paradigm with mitigation co-benefits, as a literature and document study show. India had a long way to come from the notion that mitigation was threatening economic growth to adopting the co-benefits approach. The paradigms of "differentiated responsibilities" and of having a right to emit as much as the industrialized countries are deeply rooted. This is also shown by India's reaction to the current economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Subjects: 
Climate policy
Co-benefits
Developing country
Differentiated responsibilities
India
Mitigation of climate change
NAPCC
Paris agreement
Sustainable development
UNFCCC
JEL: 
D63
F53
N4
Q01
Q54
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Article
Document Version: 
Published Version

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