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The environmental consciousness of mankind in the 21st century has inspired the international community to seal a consensual deal on taking measures to confront climate change and wished that such measures would bear fruit. However, the greatest challenge in this effort is to bring all parties together as although they agree to the urgency of curbing emissions, they contested over the sharing of the 'global common property resource, the atmosphere'. India has a significant presence in this global environmental politics. Her official position in various international negotiations is guided by the principle of 'Common But Differentiated Responsibilities and Respective Capabilities'(CBDR&RC) of the UNFCCC/Kyoto process. However, in the post Kyoto framework, the developed countries tried to remove the difference in the climate responsibilities between them and the developing world. Specially intense pressure was piled on emerging economies like India and China to take more obligations on mitigation actions and to follow a clean growth trajectory. Against such a backdrop, since the Copenhagen summit of 2009, the world has witnessed a transformation in India's role on the negotiating table from being a mere silent spectator to being a leading voice from the developing world. Before Copenhagen, she made unilateral and voluntary announcement that her per capita GHG emissions would never exceed that of the developed world. This proactive attitude was also evident in the then Environment Minister Jayram Ramesh's words when he announced in Parliament just before Copenhagen summit that India would voluntarily reduce the ‘emissions intensity’ of its GDP by 20-25 per cent by... ... middle of paper ... ...the elements and principles of the UNFCCC by equating all stakeholders in their responsibilities to reduce emissions and to enhance their contribution to technology and financial provisions. Against this backdrop India in coalition with the emerging group of like minded developing nations and the BASIC group has revealed that historical emissions and the principle of CBDR are non negotiable pillars of her strategy. Such strongly held opposing values and interests ultimately have made the Warsaw climate talk an another episode of lost opportunity undermining the multilateral process that was kept alive by the Doha Climate Gateway. Works Cited 1.Lok Sabha , Transcript of Minister's response in the Lok Sabha, Parliament of India, New Delhi, 3 December, 2009. p.246 Available at http://164.100.47.132/debatestext/15/III/0312.pdf Accessed on 18 January, 2014.