Multi-level climate governance in India: the role of the states in climate action planning and renewable energies

Jørgensen, Kirsten S.; Mishra, Arabinda; Sarangi, Gopal K.

doi:10.1080/1943815x.2015.1093507

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“…Ostensibly, the adaptation policy domain at the national scale empowers states to focus on development imperatives at sub-national scales (Atteridge et al 2012;Jorgensen et al 2015;Remling and Persson 2015;Sherman et al 2016), though often circumscribes their space for innovation (Jogesh and Dubash 2015). By 2009, each of the 29 Indian states and 7 union territories was required to draft a State Action Plan for Climate Change (SAPCC), implementing a common national framework elaborated by the Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Climate Change that is tailored to each state's unique vulnerabilities (Government of India 2008).…”

Section: India: Powering Without Puzzlingmentioning

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“…Gujarat's SAPCC identifies vulnerable socioeconomic systems, commodity export crops, indigenous tree species, and specific ecosystems (Government of Gujarat 2014; see Jorgensen et al 2015). Another section identifies a range of factors which may interact with various determinants of health outcomes but fails to identify specific negative health outcomes nor their cause (Government of Gujarat 2014: 120).…”

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Powering and puzzling: climate change adaptation policies in Bangladesh and India

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Vij

Ishtiaque

2020

Environ Dev Sustain

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South Asia is a region uniquely vulnerable to climate-related impacts. Climate change adaptation in India and Bangladesh evolves using powering and puzzling approaches by policy actors. We seek to answer the question: how do powering and puzzling approaches influence the climate change adaptation policy design and implementation processes in Bangladesh and India? We adopted two strategies to collect and analyze data: semistructured interviews and discourse analysis. We found that adaptation policymaking is largely top-down, amenable to techno-managerial solutions, and not inclusive of marginalized actors. In Bangladesh, power interplays among ministerial agencies impair the policy implementation process and undermine the success of puzzling. Local-scale agencies do not have enough authority or power to influence the overall implementation processes occurring at higher scales of governance. The powering of different actors in Bangladesh is visible through a duality of mandates and a lack of integration of climate adaptation strategies in different government ministries. The powering aspect of India's various adaptation policies is the lack of collective puzzling around the question of differentiated vulnerability by axes of social difference. Paradoxically, India has a puzzling approach of hiding behind the poor in international negotiations. Moving forward, both countries should strive to have more inclusive and equitable adaptation policymaking processes that enable the participation of marginalized populations and represent their anxieties and aspirations. Identifying policy-relevant insights from South Asia using the powering and puzzling approaches can foster adaptation policy processes that facilitate empowerment, the missing piece of the adaptation policymaking puzzle.

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Section: India: Powering Without Puzzlingmentioning

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Section: India: Powering Without Puzzlingmentioning

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Powering and puzzling: climate change adaptation policies in Bangladesh and India

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Ishtiaque

2020

Environ Dev Sustain

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“…Indeed, a more recent study on city masterplans indicates the prevalence of “climate relevant” features such as transit‐oriented and mixed‐used development, in contrast to the earlier literature (Raparthi, ). These activities distil to the urban level through a multilevel governance framework that conditions the types of local climate responses that are possible (Bulkeley, ; Jörgensen, Mishra, & Sarangi, ).…”

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Urbanization in the time of climate change: Examining the response of Indian cities

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Bhardwaj

2018

WIREs Climate Change

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India's urban transition is salient to the growing emphasis on city responses to climate change. While projected to experience the largest global urban transition with significant infrastructure investment in the next few decades, the welfare of Indian cities remains poor, which complicates the implications for climate change mitigation and adaptation. This paper traces, synthesizes and characterizes the emerging literature on Indian urban climate debates. It discusses the arc of urban climate efforts, from an initial emphasis on climate vulnerabilities and risks, broadening over time to include climate mitigation. The paper examines the governance forms and political motivations with which such actions are pursued in cities and finds three overarching characteristics: the use of local development priorities as an entry point to climate mitigation and adaptation; the role of nonstate actors in promoting climate-relevant outcomes; and the proclivity for discrete project-based activities. The paper suggests that while a range of Indian cities are beginning to consider climate concerns, a larger strategic understanding of the interaction between climate and development priorities, across policy and governance levels, is yet to be developed. The future trajectory of urban India's responses to climate change will be shaped by the institutional prioritising, linking and integrating of urgent local development and mitigation and adaptation goals.This article is categorized under:

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“…In addition, also Panchayats and Municipalities are assigned competences with an environmental focus. While a comprehensive review of the structure of environmental governance in India is beyond the scope of this contribution, the allocation of competences between different governmental tiers represents one of the main challenges for Indian policymakers [13], and consequently for the implementation and the enforcement of environmental policies.…”

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“…Since the Stockholm Conference in 1972 and in light of the principles outlined in the Constitution, key pieces of environmental legislation were adopted, including the Water Act (1974); the Air Pollution Act (1981); the Environment Act (1986), Environmental Pollution Control Authority of Delhi NCR (1998), the National Environment Policy (2006), which represented the first strategic initiative for environmental protection aimed at integrating environmental protection with economic and social development, and that explicitly considered issues of inter-generational and intra-generational equity [13], EPCA and, more recently, the National Green Tribunal 2010The 1981 Air Pollution Act:…”

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Air Pollution in Delhi: A Review of Past and Current Policy Approaches

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Chatterton

Namdeo

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WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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Delhi National Capital Region (Delhi NCR) is facing serious challenges linked to worrying levels of air pollution (mainly NO2, PM10 and PM2.5). The CADTIME prject (Clean Air in Delhi through Implementation, Mitigation and Engagement) aims to understand what is required to deliver significant reductions in levels of air pollution. This paper presents the results of the first stage of the project: it firstly contextualises the challenges of air quality management in Delhi within the broader evolution of environmental policies and governance in India, with particular consideration to the tensions between environmental protection and the country's development objectives. Secondly, it sets out how CADTIME will combine multiple source qualitative and quantitative data to develop an air quality action plan and an implementation strategy. In particular, through two workshops with local and national experts and stakeholders, and two rounds of focus groups with citizens of Delhi we will contrast stakeholders' priorities and preferences for existing and potential solutions to air pollution with citizens' lived experiences, thus assessing the political/technical feasibility and public acceptability of current and proposed measures. Furthermore, we will complement the primary qualitative data with a critical review examining the successes and failures of UK and European policies to draw lessons that can be relevant for Delhi and to avoid ineffective policies and achieve cost-effective solutions for the city in the shortest possible time.

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Multi-level climate governance in India: the role of the states in climate action planning and renewable energies

Cited by 31 publications

References 29 publications

Powering and puzzling: climate change adaptation policies in Bangladesh and India

Powering and puzzling: climate change adaptation policies in Bangladesh and India

Urbanization in the time of climate change: Examining the response of Indian cities

Air Pollution in Delhi: A Review of Past and Current Policy Approaches

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