Latest Publications

Developments in national climate change mitigation legislation and strategy
By: Navroz K Dubash

Dubash, N.K., Hagemann, M., Höhne N., and Upadhyaya, P., 2013. Developments in national climate change mitigation legislation and strategy. Climate Policy 13(6), pp. 649-664.

Time to Dust Off the Climate Plan?
By: Anu Jogesh

The Uttarakhand disaster invited much criticism, but to say that the state government was unaware of the possibility of such a disaster would be unfair. In 2012 the Uttarakhand Action Plan on Climate Change, based on wide consultations, assessed possibilities and steps needed to avert such disasters. Despite the extensive information provided in the document, it fails to be "implementable" due to issues of financing and bureaucratic initiative among others.

Jogesh A., 2013. Time to Dust off the Climate Plan? Economic and Political Weekly. XLVII(48)

'Of Maps and Compasses: India in Multilateral Climate Negotiations.' In: Shaping the Emerging World: India and the Multilateral Order (Edited by Sidhu, Mehta, and Jones)
By: Navroz K Dubash

India has taken a remarkably consistent approach to global climate negotiations; a principled position on climate change founded on attention to equity dimensions of the problem. This stance which is the setting on a metaphorical compass that has guided the last two decades of Indian climate policy, has strong implications for India’s arguments for the relative mitigation burdens of the industrialised and developing world and therefore for India’s approach to multilateralism applied to climate change.

Climate Change and International Environmental Law: Musings on a Journey to Somewhere
By: Lavanya Rajamani

Abstract: This article considers how far the climate change regime is an exemplar of international environmental law as well as public international law. We focus on five issues: the nature and extent of differentiation in favour of developing countries, the role of soft law, the dynamics of decision-making in multilateral negotiations, the contribution of dispute settlement, and the impact of (and assumptions underlying) scholarly offerings in this field.