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The diplomatic environment in India and around has changed radically with new technologies, new actors, new media and new agendas. This article argues that these trends are set to continue and accelerate, even as more traditional geopolitics re-emerge. Governments (both central and state as well as global) will remain the key players in national international relations, even as they struggle to understand a world of fragmenting norms and emerging new powers. Economic realities will increase the pressure to deliver more for less, forcing radical innovations in organization, mindsets and working practices. Hence there is an urgent need to integrate change and continuity, in the context of diverse agendas and arenas, different diplomatic processes and structures and machinery of diplomacy. This article examines how environmental diplomacy must reinvent to meet the ever increasing demands of governments and citizens alike for realizing inclusive sustainable development
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