Ten Years After: Evaluating State Action Plans in India

Jogesh, Anu; Paul, Mridula Mary

doi:10.36094/sc.v86.2020.climate_change.jogesh_and_paul.38

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“…Specific missions have also been created to target sectors vulnerable to climate change. India has also established State Action Plans on Climate Change, where each state is expected to tailor an action plan based on its sense of vulnerabilities and opportunities (Jogesh and Paul 2020). Despite state-specific plans, action on climate change at the state level is guided by a strong top-down approach that takes its cues from the central government (Bhardwaj and Khosla 2020).…”

Section: India and Climate Changementioning

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Climate change: the missing discourse in the Indian Parliament

Mundoli

Jacob

Murali

et al. 2022

Environ. Res.: Climate

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Parliamentary Questions (PQs) are a crucial oversight tool available to parliamentarians in all democracies. In a well-functioning democracy, parliamentary oversight can play an important role in climate change policy, ensuring that climate concerns are represented in national agendas. India is the largest democracy in the world and one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change. Over a twenty-year period, from 1999-2019, we examine whether parliamentarians used PQs to address climate change issues in India. We asked four questions 1) how often are PQs raised about climate change? 2) are vulnerable constituency interests being represented in the Parliament? 3) what kinds of questions do parliamentarians ask? and 4) where do parliamentarians get their information on climate change from? 895 unique PQs related to climate change were raised by 1019 Ministers, forming only a fraction (~0.3%) of the total PQs asked in parliament during this period, however the number of PQs related to climate change increased over time. PQs were not raised by the states most vulnerable to climate change, nor did they represent the concerns of socially vulnerable groups. The PQs were mostly concerned about the impacts (27.6%) and mitigation (23.4%) of climate change. Impacts on agriculture (38.3%), coastal changes (28.6 %), and health (13.4%) were of main interest, along with mitigation issues related to energy (43.6%), agriculture (21.8%), and aviation (9.1%). Despite the significant and growing vulnerability of India to climate change, PQs related to climate change were largely missing. Although they have increased over time, we still find there is substantial room for growth, especially in critical areas of climate justice and adaptation that are especially relevant to the Indian context. Raising the level of parliamentary debate on climate change is critical and needs to be foregrounded.

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Section: India and Climate Changementioning

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Climate change: the missing discourse in the Indian Parliament

Mundoli

Jacob

Murali

et al. 2022

Environ. Res.: Climate

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Critical climate-stress moments for semi-arid farming systems in India

Srinidhi,

Smolenaars,

Werners

et al. 2024

Reg Environ Change

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In the face of the increasing frequency of climate stresses, climate change projections can help in adaptation planning and resilience-building. However, typical climate change projections, such as annual average rainfall and temperature increases, are not helpful for farmers in understanding specific climate risks, like crop loss, and making adaptation decisions. Our study aims to identify and characterise context- and time-specific climate stresses in terms of climate conditions of concern to improve the understanding of future climate risks and enhance the climate resilience of semi-arid farming systems in India. Utilising the concept of critical climate-stress moments, we employ an innovative bottom-up methodology integrating insights from focus group discussions with farmers, key informant interviews, and an ensemble of downscaled and bias-corrected Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP-6) models. Our case studies include (i) a mixed crop-livestock farming system, (ii) a horticulture-based farming system, (iii) a cash crop–dominant farming system, and (iv) a cereal-dominant farming system. The specific climate conditions of concern identified were (i) increasing volume of late-monsoon rainfall, (ii) rising winter temperatures, (iii) increase in the number of days with temperatures exceeding 40 °C, (iv) increase in days with heavy rainfall (> 25 mm), and (v) increasing rainfall during the dry season. Identifying these critical moments improves understanding of both the temporal and spatial variations in climate risks, providing valuable inputs for targeted and implementable climate resilience–building actions. We recommend revising national and state action plans on climate change by utilising such region-specific assessments of critical climate-stress moments.

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Ten Years After: Evaluating State Action Plans in India

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Climate change: the missing discourse in the Indian Parliament

Climate change: the missing discourse in the Indian Parliament

Critical climate-stress moments for semi-arid farming systems in India

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