Climate change has emerged in the past few years as the environmental problem at the global level, swamping all other environmental issues. Western environmentalists who focus largely on wilderness and biodiversity conservation have adapted easily, by showing how climate change will aggravate the problem of conservation - e.g., loss of polar bears, seals, penguins, or whales (see, for instance, Lovejoy and Hannah, 2006). But this kind of 'climate centrism' in the environmental discourse has been problematic for many environmentalists in the global South, as it threatens to divert attention from other more pressing local or regional issues such as water scarcity and pollution, indoor and outdoor air pollution, mining impacts, or solid waste management. Not surprisingly, many Indian environmentalists have been tentative and ambiguous about engaging with climate change, to the extent that this tentativeness has been interpreted in the North as 'foot-dragging' or even 'hiding behind the poor' (Ananthapadmanabhan et al., 2007). More recently, one sees an upsurge in interest and engagement and the emergence of some new groups and coalitions. Although some are focusing exclusively on climate change, most others are critical of blind engagement and are grappling with how best to integrate the issue into their overall approach to environmentally sound development. The purpose of this chapter is to understand the manner in which Indian environ- mentalists have engaged with climate change so far, and how they might better engage with it in the future. I will argue that although the initial lukewarm response and the recent urgency have been shaped to an extent by the changing 'scientific' understanding of the impacts, fully understanding the nature of engagement requires exploring the various shades of Indian environmentalism and the complex linkage between climate and other environmental issues. I will present the different normative and analytical dimensions of Indian environmentalism(s) and suggest that a normatively more inclusive and analytically more sophisticated environmentalism might provide a means of better engaging with and integrating climate change concerns into domestic environmental agendas.