It's time for India to lead the Global South on climate goals

Nation is showing potential to become a clean energy powerhouse

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Workers install solar panels at the Khavda Renewable Energy Park of Adani Green Energy Ltd (AGEL) in Khavda, India, in April 2024. © Reuters

Sohini Chatterjee is a director at Kaya Partners and former senior official at the U.S. Department of State and adjunct professor at Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs. Atman Trivedi is a partner and lead of the South Asia Practice at DGA-Albright Stonebridge Group as well as nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council's South Asia Center and adjunct fellow at the Pacific Forum.

The international community is currently grappling with an enormous challenge that threatens to reverse recent gains in global welfare. We can no longer be inattentive to the imminent economic perils that a warming climate will unleash on the global economy and emerging markets like India.

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