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- Arora-Jonsson, Seema, et al.
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Voices from the field: Working for a just climate in India
- 2023
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Ingår i: Just Transitions: Gender and Power in India’s Climate Politics. - 9781000969580 ; , s. 74-92
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this chapter, Seema Arora-Jonsson discusses the question of just transitions with a cross section of people working for a better climate in India: a former civil servant and climate negotiator who has long worked with climate issues, a practitioner/activist working on just transitions in an NGO, an activist with a long history in the women’s grassroots movements, a gender activist who has worked extensively with climate change at the international level as well as a networker who maintains a platform for corporations for climate finance. We discuss the context in which transitions are taking place, go on to current policy approaches and its gendered aspects and the structural challenges and barriers of policy approaches to a just transition. In the overarching gloom, we also discuss the rays of hope, and we end with what we believe is needed to take the world into a sustainable and climate-resilient place.
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- Arora-Jonsson, Seema, et al.
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Just Transitions: Gender and Power in India’s Climate Politics
- 2023
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This book turns critical feminist scrutiny on national climate policies in India and examines what transition might really mean for marginalized groups in the country. A vision of “just transitions” is increasingly being used by activists and groups to ensure that pathways towards sustainable futures are equitable and inclusive. Exploring this concept, this volume provides a feminist study of what it would take to ensure just transitions in India where gender, in relation to its interesting dimensions of power, is at the centre of analysis. With case studies on climate mitigation and adaptation from different parts of India, the book brings together academics, practitioners and policymakers who provide commentary on sectors including agriculture, forestry and renewables. Overall, the book has relevance far beyond India’s borders, as India’s attempt to deal with its diverse population makes it a key litmus test for countries seeking to transition against a backdrop of inequality both in the Global North and South. This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate policy, gender studies, sustainable development and development studies more broadly.
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- Atteridge, Aaron, et al.
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Climate policy in India : what shapes international, national and state policy?
- 2012
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Ingår i: Ambio. - Stockholm : Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. - 0044-7447 .- 1654-7209. ; 41:Suppl. 1, s. 68-77
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- At the international level, India is emerging as a key actor in climate negotiations, while at the national and sub-national levels, the climate policy landscape is becoming more active and more ambitious. It is essential to unravel this complex landscape if we are to understandwhy policy looks the way it does, and the extent to which India might contribute to a future international framework for tackling climate change as well as how internationalparties might cooperate with and support India’s domestic efforts. Drawing on both primary and secondary data, this paper analyzes the material and ideational drivers that are most strongly influencing policy choices at different levels, from international negotiations down to individual states. We argue that at each level of decision making in India,climate policy is embedded in wider policy concerns. In the international realm, it is being woven into broader foreign policy strategy, while domestically, it is being shaped to serve national and sub-national development interests. While our analysis highlights some common drivers at all levels, it also finds that their influences over policy are not uniform across the different arenas, and in some cases, they work in different ways at different levels of policy. We also indicate what this may mean for the likely acceptability within India of various climate policies being pushed at the international level.
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- Chan, Sander, et al.
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Climate Ambition and Sustainable Development for a New Decade : A Catalytic Framework
- 2021
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Ingår i: Global Policy. - : Wiley. - 1758-5880 .- 1758-5899. ; 12:3, s. 245-259
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper examines the Global Climate Action Agenda (GCAA) and discusses options to improve sub- and non-state involvement in post-2020 climate governance. A framework that stimulates sub- and non-state action is a necessary complement to national governmental action, as the latter falls short of achieving low-carbon and climate-resilient development as envisaged in the Paris Agreement. Applying design principles for an ideal-type orchestration framework, we review literature and gather expert judgements to assess whether the GCAA has been collaborative, comprehensive, evaluative and catalytic. Results show that there has been greater coordination among orchestrators, for instance in the organization of events. However, mobilization efforts remain event-driven and too little effort is invested in understanding the progress of sub- and non-state action. Data collection has improved, although more sophisticated indicators are needed to evaluate climate and sustainable development impacts. Finally, the GCAA has recorded more action, but relatively little by actors in developing countries. As the world seeks to recover from the COVID-19 crisis and enters a new decade of climate action, the GCAA could make a vital contribution in challenging times by helping governments keep and enhance climate commitments; strengthening capacity for sub- and non-state action; enabling accountability; and realizing sustainable development.
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- Shrivastava, Manish Kumar, et al.
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Gender and India’s climate policy: Bridging the disconnects
- 2023
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Ingår i: Just Transitions: Gender and Power in India’s Climate Politics. - 9781000969580 ; , s. 55-73
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Gender has been central to India’s development planning. However, an overtly development-centric climate policy seems to have ignored concerns of gender equality. This chapter unpacks the various dimensions of this disconnect between development planning and climate policy by contrasting the progression in policy discourse on women empowerment with the framing and evolution of climate policy as a new development discourse. It is argued that the policymaking on gender in India has corresponded very well to the advancements in the academic discourse and social movements for gender equality. Over the years, starting from the First Five-Year Plan in 1951, the underlying understanding of policy provisions has evolved and reflects a better appreciation of the idea of gender equality as integral to development planning. However, this understanding has not permeated into the administrative and analytical apparatus of broader development policy of which climate policy is a part. The idea of social and economic development in climate policy debates is invariably reduced to a pursuit of cost-effective technological upgradation, oblivious to a vast body of scholarship arguing the social embeddedness of technological choices. Not only the climate policies remain detached from the advancements in the policymaking for gender justice, but the academic literature also feeding into climate policy too has taken an ad-hoc approach towards centrality of gender equality to development. The chapter suggests that the provisions in existing gender policies offer a ready reference for better integration of gender justice into climate policies. However, this would require a political determination to keep gender justice at the centre of development policymaking as well as efforts by climate policy researchers to expand the horizon.
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