Why a clearer ‘green industrial policy’ matters for India: Reconciling growth, climate change and inequality

Deepak Gopinath

doi:10.1177/0269094216675434

Abstract

To ensure a healthy growth of the economy particularly in the manufacturing sector, the Indian Government is more than ever focussed on promoting the use of sustainable and affordable energy resources. Recent initiatives such as the Solar Cities Development Programme are a good example. However, in order for these initiatives to gain legitimacy as part of a new ‘green industrial policy’, the Indian Government needs to do more, especially by bringing on board strategies for combating poverty within the gamut of this emerging ‘green industrial policy’ as well as to re-think India’s position on global conventions on climate change.

Highlights

Viewpoint Debates on the impact and responses to climate change in the Indian context have been an emerging area of interest in the past decade (Jasanoff 1993; Rajan 1997; Jakobsen 1998; Kandlikar and Sagar 1999; Rajamani 2009)
To ensure a healthy growth of the economy in the manufacturing sector, the Indian Government is more than ever focussed on promoting use of sustainable and affordable energy resources
Research on climate change in Indian has been undertaken using the lens of adaptationi, where for instance, work carried includes an understanding of how actors and institutional frameworks in the local area shape the capacities of individuals/communities to adapt (Banerjee et al 2013)

Summary

Introduction

Viewpoint Debates on the impact and responses to climate change in the Indian context have been an emerging area of interest in the past decade (Jasanoff 1993; Rajan 1997; Jakobsen 1998; Kandlikar and Sagar 1999; Rajamani 2009).

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Conclusion