The High-Level India-EU Dialogue is an independent initiative of Action for a Global Climate Community, which aims at identifying ways in which the developed and developing worlds can work together to jointly bear the costs of maintaining sustainable economic growth, using renewable energy and cooperating on urgent adaptation programmes.

India and the European Union are considered ideal partners for this purpose and, by implementing the concrete proposals for joint actions emerging from the Dialogue, they could lead the creation of an equitable and effective global framework and start a "North-South climate community", within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, that would be open to any and all countries willing to join.

This initiative was launched during a High-Level seminar in Potsdam, Germany, on 27-29 May 2008 and was followed by a High-Level seminar in New Delhi, India, on 3-4 February 2009 and a further High-Level meeting in London, UK, on 7-8 July 2009. All events gathered political, scientific, business, NGO and academic experts on climate and development issues from across India and Europe and were chaired by Nitin Desai, former UN Under-Secretary General for Economic and Social Affairs, and Sir Crispin Tickell, Director of the Policy Foresight Programme at The James Martin Institute of Oxford University.

Please visit our page giving access to all the research papers and the report prepared by the Dialogue and read our overview of the existing EU-India institutional mechanisms on climate and clean development.