Climate and Just Transitions in South Asia

Ghosh's argument is that modern literature, history, and politics have collectively failed to take climate change seriously — and that this failure is itself a colonial inheritance. The book is short, beautifully written, and especially powerful on why South Asian writers have something distinctive to say about a global crisis.

The Summary for Policymakers is the single most important 30-page document for anyone working on climate and development. The Asia chapter contains the headline numbers South Asian governments cite in international negotiations and policy documents.

CSE's annual environmental report and Narain's editorials remain the most uncompromising statement of the South Asian environmental position — that historical responsibility, equity, and per-capita emissions matter, and that climate justice is not a slogan but a budget line. Read at least one full year's report.

The single most useful volume on Indian climate politics — a multi-author book that maps the science, the policy architecture, the energy transition, and the politics. Dubash's framing of climate policy as "co-benefits" rather than as standalone abatement has shaped how the field thinks about the developmental implications of climate action.

Vaishnav's running interviews with Dubash and other climate-policy researchers offer the most accessible introduction to Indian climate politics for non-specialists. Search the Grand Tamasha archive for "climate" — the episodes function as a self-paced primer.

A long-running, regionally focused outlet for climate reporting that covers India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan together. The river-and-glacier reporting is especially strong, and the editorial line is closer to the on-the-ground reality than most international climate desks.

The most authoritative public dataset on India's energy mix, projected demand, and investment requirements. The IEA's modelling is contested but defensible; learning to read its scenario tables is a baseline skill for anyone working on energy transitions in the region.

Chandra Bhushan's iForest reports on coal-region transitions in Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh are the most concrete South Asian "just transition" planning documents available. Strong on the labour-and-livelihood implications of phasing out coal, which the global discourse routinely under-weights.

CPR's energy team produces some of the most policy-relevant research on Indian electricity sector reform, renewable energy, and air pollution. The papers are technical but accessible, and they engage seriously with the political-economy constraints state governments actually face.

A more historical and political book than The Great Derangement. Ghosh argues that the climate crisis is not separable from the long history of colonial extraction, and that adaptation in the Global South is shaped by patterns of dispossession that go back centuries.

Bangladesh is the country whose adaptation planning is most often held up as a model. ICCCAD's working papers and Saleemul Huq's writing are essential reading on what serious community-based adaptation actually looks like, and on the limits of "loss and damage" as a substitute for it.