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      <JournalTitle>ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND STRATEGIC STUDIES</JournalTitle>
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      <Volume-Issue>Volume 3 Issue 1</Volume-Issue>
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      <IssueTopic>Multidisciplinary</IssueTopic>
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      <Season>April-May 2022</Season>
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        <Year>2022</Year>
        <Month>05</Month>
        <Day>31</Day>
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      <ArticleType>International Relations</ArticleType>
      <ArticleTitle>Untangling India’s Non-Traditional Security Challenge of Climate Change: Is Soft Power Diplomacy a Panacea for Anthropocentric Abuses?</ArticleTitle>
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      <FirstPage>66</FirstPage>
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          <FirstName>Abhigyan</FirstName>
          <LastName>Guha</LastName>
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      <DOI>10.47362/EJSSS.2022.3105</DOI>
      <Abstract>India’s pursuit towards a sustainable future has been accompanied by the centrality of climate diplomacy while leveraging its soft power apparatus in spearheading global trust-building, capacity-building and managing global common resources. Irrespective of the post-COVID ramifications, India has remained the only G20 nation on track to meet its climate change mitigation commitments, as India continues to maintain an ambitious target of 450 gigawatts by 2030 for itself on renewable energy, adhering to cutting down carbon emissions by 33% by 2030, keeping its promise on global warming mitigation to below 2 degrees. Predicating its approach towards multilateral action on respect, peace, prosperity, dialogue and cooperation, India has marshalled multilateral action on climate change in the international arena, from being the founder of the International Solar Alliance, leading the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure, to constituting an integral component of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue’s Climate Working Group, aiming at strengthening climate actions on mitigation, adaptation, resilience, technology-building capacity and climate finance. The paper problematizes climate change in international politics, focusing on India’s soft power dimension while assessing the vulnerabilities associated with climate change, emphasizing exclusively on the evolution and the emerging multifaceted dynamics of India’s climate diplomacy.</Abstract>
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      <Keywords>COVID-19,Soft Power,Climate Diplomacy,Climate Change,Sustainable Development,Non-traditional Security,Capacity-building,Multilateralism</Keywords>
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