Environmental Governance in India: Towards carbon emission mitigation and adaptation

Abstract

Environmental governance in India emerged in the seventies and gained public appeal in the subsequent years. In India, although Constitution and country’s structure of polity provide possibility for a multi-tiered environmental governance system, yet this possibility has not been sufficiently explored. Now, environmental governance is prime focus of governments across the world. Thus, government is undertaking series of mitigation and adaptation measures under its policies and programmes. However, the research on environmental governance is very limited in India. Viewing this, this paper attempts to discuss the concept of environmental governance and policies of the government for low carbon emissions. The submission discusses environmental policy of the government, low electricity consumption, eco-friendly transports, fuel efficiency and financial measures. Towards the end, a set of policy recommendations are discussed. The study is conducted mainly based on the existing secondary sources of data and analytical approach is followed in the paper. The aim of this paper is to identify the environmental governance measures undertaken by government for reduction of carbon emissions and curbing climate change.