Building a Climate-Ready State

Summary

Reducing carbon emissions across the economy and building a climate resilient future creates some vexing governance challenges. Governments need knowledge resources and institutional processes that facilitate the creation of viable long-term strategies. To execute them, they must create coordination mechanisms that cajole several centrifugal forces across national and sub-national governments. And, finally, this governance system must have elements capable of handling the sensitive task of mediating politics between state and society.

How should states, particularly the Indian state, approach these climate governance challenges? What institutional forms could work, and what have countries across the world tried so far? We aim to begin a discussion on models of effective governance that may be useful to policymakers, scholars, and civil society organisations alike.

Publications

• Reimagining Indian federalism in the climate crisis, Ideas for India
  By Aditya Valiathan Pillai, Navroz K Dubash, Parth Bhatia
  
  
• States are the beating heart of climate action, Hindustan Times
  By Aditya Valiathan Pillai, Navroz K Dubash, Parth Bhatia
  
  
• Design a climate-ready governance system, Hindustan Times
  By Navroz K Dubash, Aditya Valiathan Pillai, Parth Bhatia
  
  
• Special Issue on ‘Varieties of Climate Governance’ in Environmental Politics (all articles), Environmental Politics 
  By Navroz K Dubash
  
  
• National climate institutions complement targets and policies, Science
  By Navroz K Dubash, Aditya Valiathan Pillai, Christian Flachsland, Kathryn Harrison, Kathryn Hochstetler, Matthew Lockwood, Robert Macneil, Matto Mildenberger, Matthew Paterson, Fei Teng, and Emily Tyler
  
  
• Varieties of climate governance: the emergence and functioning of climate institutions, Environmental Politics
  By Navroz K Dubash
  
  
• The limits of opportunism: the uneven emergence of climate institutions in India, Environmental Politics
  By Aditya Valiathan Pillai, Navroz K Dubash
  
  
• Climate Governance and Federalism in India, published in the book ‘Climate Governance and Federalism: A Forum of Federations Comparative Policy Analysis’, Cambridge University Press 
  By Navroz K Dubash, Aditya Valiathan Pillai
  
  
• Litigating Climate Claims in India, published in ‘Transnational Climate Litigation: The Contribution of the Global South’, American Journal of International Law
  By Shibani Ghosh
  
  
• The Ecological Costs of Doing Business: Environment, Energy and Climate Change, published in ‘Re-forming India: The Nation Today’, Penguin India
  By Navroz K Dubash and Shibani Ghosh
  
  
• Climate Litigation in India, published in ‘Comparative Climate Change Litigation: Beyond the Usual Suspects’, Springer
  By Shibani Ghosh
  
  
• National Climate Policies and Institutions, published in ‘India in a Warming World: Integrating Climate Change and Development’, Oxford University Press
  By Navroz K Dubash and Shibani Ghosh
  
  
• Tackling climate governance in India, International Growth Centre
  By Navroz K Dubash and Anirudh Sridhar
  
  
• As global warming proceeds, how can India introduce climate governance to law?, Scroll
  By Navroz K Dubash and Anirudh Sridhar
  
  
• The right to save our future, The India Energy Hour podcast
  Featuring Shibani Ghosh
  
  

• Design national framework climate laws to enable low-carbon resilient transformation, Science
  By Navroz K Dubash
  
  

• Court on climate right and how India can enforce it, The Hindu
  By Navroz K Dubash, Shibani Ghosh and Aditya Valiathan Pillai

• A law around low-carbon climate resilient development, The Hindu
  By Navroz K Dubash, Aditya Valiathan Pillai and Shibani Ghosh

• Towards Operationalising a New Climate Right for India: Unpacking the Ranjitsinh Judgment, The India Forum
  By Navroz K Dubash and Shibani Ghosh