India's wins and losses at Katowice Climate Change talks

From adaptation to finance, a good degree of balance on all aspects is advantage New Delhi

The result of bad bargains India struck at the political level in accepting some provisions of the Paris Agreement came to haunt it in the shape of final rulebook three years later at Katowice. The rulebook to the Paris Agreement had been under negotiations for three years, starting 2016. During these years negotiations were hit by a change of regime in the US and developed countries at large strategically driving the starting point of the talks far away from the Paris Agreement. It took a collective effort of developing countries, in which India played its role, to make sure that