| Subject: | International Relations \ Environmental Studies |
| Title: | The Geopolitics of the Green Transition: The ISA and the Indian search of the Global Green Order |
| Author(s): | Nitin Kumar |
| Published on: | 30th April 2026 |
| Published by: | Lyceum India |
| Name of the Journal: | Lyceum India Journal of Social Sciences |
| ISSN/E-ISSN: | 3048-6513 |
| Volume & Issue: | Volume: 3, Issue: 5 |
| Pages: | 230-239 |
| Original DOI (if any): | 10.5281/zenodo.19690727 |
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| Abstract: | This paper studies the grand strategy of India in the context of the global transition towards the green, that India is using climate leadership as a Strategic geopolitical tool to achieve a significant position in the world order. India has been eager to take charge of the post-carbon world with institutional solutions, such as the International Solar Alliance (ISA) and the One Sun, One World, One Grid (OSOWOG) plan, instead of being a passive victim of climate change as it has historically been. These structures are strategic oppositions to the Chinese ambitions of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and Global Energy Interconnection (GEI), with the aim of organizing the Global South into a solar bloc. Nevertheless, the Indian ambitions of being the OPEC of Solar Energy can essentially be limited by the Chinese dominance paradox on the solar manufacturing supply chain across the world. In the end, the article shows how India leverages its new-founded Green Capital to bargain towards higher geopolitical positions, traversing the intertwined nature of climate finance, technological reliance, and multipolar rivalry to become not a rule-taker but a rule-maker in the twenty-first century. |
| Keywords: | Green Geopolitics, Indian Foreign Policy, Solar Diplomacy, Osowog, International Solar Alliance (Isa), Climate Diplomacy, Indian Foreign Policy, Energy Security, Sino-Indian Relations, Energy Statecraft. |
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