Abstract
Predicaments of power and nature in India: An introduction
Highlights
Political leaders and the media, corporations and popular movements, are all engaged with issues of how to strike a balance with nature more than ever before
While time was running short, partisan national interests took centre stage. This was starkly evident in the run up to the Copenhagen United Nations Convention on Climate Change in December 2009
The prospects for a global commitment on how best to reduce greenhouse gases were hard to reach at Copenhagen
Summary
With the challenge we face, this is all the more so, with over 200 nation states with great disparities between and within them in economic endowment and ecological footprint, in political orders and social systems. Environment, in Stockholm, in 1972, where Indira Gandhi, as India’s Prime Minister, pointed out the risk caused by international inequalities for failed global commitments to protect nature.
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