Climate Action Commitments, An Approach & Legal Framework in India

Abstract

The climate justice is the concept of ensuring fair treatment and freedom from any kind of discrimination against the negative impacts of climate change. Both individually and collectively, in the form of adaptation and mitigation strategies, we are building our capacity to respond to the climate change, but the dimensions of environmental justice, equal treatment in the policy making and even the clear definition of vulnerable groups are often neglected. Climate justice is an approach to environmental inequality founded on facts, and it aims to establish rational policy and plans for mitigating the effects of climate change, supporting disadvantaged communities with appropriate legal tools, offering support and ability to cope with structural prejudice in society. Countries worldwide have undergone different kinds of environmental degradation with a fast population increase. The cities of India still remain at the cutting edge in order to counter environmental changes, while India's urbanization is potentially pushing global, national, and world-wide growth. Indian cities will develop effective plans for climate change and adaptation to cope with sustainable growth nationally and internationally. This statement offers a summary of how sustainable development target 13 will effectively tackle climate change in the national and regional policies. This further extends the definition with an Indian Policy Review, which seeks to examine India's latest attempts to resolve the climate problem. Tackling climate change effect requires tackling rising uncertainty, severity and frequency of severe occurrences. Enhanced heat wave events, dust storms, flooding and droughts need increased capacity for forecasting in order to improve assessment of climate change and catastrophe threats. In turn, it recognizes problems and opportunities in the Indian policy system that can enable Indian cities become prosperous and climate change responsive. This study analyses the Goal 13 of Sustainable Development in detail and policies and action plans set by the UN to achieve the goal. Also, it lists out the various commitments made at the Indian level and action plans set by the Government of India to overcome the problem. The study also presents the role of the Gujarat Government and women to ratchet up climate actions. This is the secondary research and data has been analysed based on the viewpoints of the generation and connects it with future possibilities to meet the desired goal. Qualitative research methodology has been used to collect the secondary data. The objective of this research study is to explore different policies and action plans taken by India and their result in connection with the Sustainable Development Goal 13. According to the findings of the study, it has been analysed that the Government laid out various plans as instruments to overcome the obstacles and Gujarat Government took up special programmes in action that led to wider concentration. Finally, it has been concluded that India needs to derive more mitigation and adaptation strategies and proactive engagement that curbs the climate change need for the future generation.