FEDERALISM AND CLIMATE CHANGE: GAUGING THROUGH THE DECENTRALISED STRUCTURE OF INDIAN AND CANADIAN POLICIES

Abstract

While the 28 Conference of the Parties on Climate Change has been convened, several minimum standards have been promulgated for environmental quality, natural resources protection, and alternative energy; state parties, the obligations so pledged shall be translated only based on state practises. International law is fervently dependent on the state. Similarly, executing the pledge taken in these Conferences of the Parties by the respective state largely depends on the states' national policies. Environmental protection, adaptation, and mitigation are some down-up models of policy-making, in which the federalist form of Government has proved to function better due to the proximity of local-level authorities to the governance target. This paper compares Canada and India's two significant Federalism Models in combatting the climate justice system concerning its decentralised structure.