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Adaptation issues, coupled with finance and technology transfers for developing countries, will top India’s agenda at a key global climate change conference starting in Morocco from 7 November 2016, signalling a continuation of its efforts to get industrialized developed nations to do more to halt global warming. The 22nd meeting of the CoP (Conference of Parties) to the UNFCCC (UN Framework Convention on Climate Change) will take place in Marrakech, Morocco, from 7 to 18 November. Experts cautioned that India should go to Morocco with a clear position on ‘loss and damage’ as CoP22 will see a thorough review of what is called the Warsaw International Mechanism. This mechanism was established at CoP19 (November 2013) in Warsaw, Poland, to address the loss and damage caused by climate change—extreme weather events as well as slow onset events—in developing countries that are particularly vulnerable to climate change. The Morocco meeting comes just after the landmark Paris climate agreement came into force on 4 November—a new global deal where 197 countries agreed to cut down global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and limit the rise in average world temperatures to “well below” 2 degree Celsius over pre-industrial times.