ABSTRACT At the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change negoti- ations, India has repeatedly pushed for urgent international action on climate change, while simultaneously refusing to limit its own emissions, frustrating other participating countries. The extant economic and strategic interest-based expla- nations do not sufficiently explain some key anomalies in India’s international climate policy and have justified such contradictions in India’s diplomatic dis- course as realpolitik or pragmatic diplomacy. We argue that in order to facilitate India’s meaningful participation in the international climate change regime, we need to engage with these contradictions and understand India’s aspirations for moral and material leadership that stem from the complex interaction between economic and strategic interests and ideational factors. We posit that India’s anti-colonial discourse that repudiated Western materialism, along with its de- sire to be a moral power in global politics coupled with its desire to mimic the western standard of living, creates a development dilemma for India’s postcolo- nial identity in the global climate change regime. India’s continuous attempt to resolve this dilemma has produced specific frames–projecting itself as a victim, mistrust of the West, framing the Earth’s CO2 carrying capacity as extended sovereign territory, and national exceptionalism–in the climate change discourse. These frames are consistent with India’s broader foreign policy discourse as a postcolonial nation and have coalesced India’s claim to moral leadership, seek commitments from developed countries to do their part, and simultaneously play- ing a limited role in the international climate regime.

中文翻译：

---

印度在国际气候变化机制下的外交话语与发展困境

摘要 在联合国气候变化框架公约谈判中，印度一再推动应对气候变化的紧急国际行动，同时拒绝限制自己的排放，令其他参与国感到沮丧。现存的基于经济和战略利益的解释并不能充分解释印度国际气候政策中的一些关键反常现象，并为印度外交话语中的现实政治或务实外交等矛盾辩解。我们认为，为了促进印度有意义地参与国际气候变化制度，我们需要处理这些矛盾，并了解印度对道德和物质领导力的渴望，这种渴望源于经济和战略利益以及观念因素之间的复杂相互作用。我们认为，印度否定西方唯物主义的反殖民话语，以及其在全​​球政治中成为道德力量的愿望以及模仿西方生活水平的愿望，为印度的后殖民身份造成了发展困境。全球气候变化机制。印度为解决这一困境所做的不断尝试已经产生了气候变化话语中的特定框架——将自己定位为受害者、对西方的不信任、将地球的二氧化碳承载能力视为扩展的主权领土以及国家例外论。这些框架与印度作为后殖民国家更广泛的外交政策话语相一致，并结合了印度对道德领导的要求，寻求发达国家的承诺以尽其本分，