Mainstreaming climate change in state development planning : an analysis of Karnataka’s action plan on climate change

Flanked by the Arabian Sea, Karnataka is a coastal state in the south west of India where owing to encroachment, pollution and infrastructural activity in the state, lakes and bodies of water are disappearing. The climate plan in Karnataka is the outcome of three distinct efforts resulting in three parallel documents. A formal plan has been produced by the Environmental Management and Policy Research Institute (EMPRI). Part of a larger project “Global Administrative Law: Improving Inter-institutional Connections in Global and National Regulatory Governance,” this report reviews the development of climate change planning processes in India, specific to various bio-regions

Time to dust off the climate plan?

The Uttarakhand disaster invited much criticism, but to say that the state government was unaware of the possibility of such a disaster would be unfair. In 2012 the Uttarakhand Action Plan on Climate Change, based on wide consultations, assessed possibilities and steps needed to avert such disasters. Despite the extensive information provided in the document, it fails to be "implementable" due to issues of financing and bureaucratic initiative among others. - See more at: http://www.epw.in/journal/2013/48/commentary/time-dust-climate-plan.html#sthash.HeSe4XNH.dpu

Mainstreaming climate change in state development planning : an analysis of the Odisha climate change action plan

Situated on the east coast of India, and with five major rivers, Odisha is susceptible to floods, droughts and cyclones. Its climate plan is unique in tackling disaster planning for the state’s river systems, not just its coasts, and recommends inland water transport corridors for bulk freight. The plan is rooted in broad sustainable development concerns and offers a unique opportunity to mainstream sustainable development in state planning processes. Part of a larger project “Global Administrative Law: Improving Inter-institutional Connections in Global and National Regulatory Governance,” this paper serves to review aspects of the development of climate change planning processes

From margins to mainstream? : state climate change planning in India

In 2009, the Government of India requested states to develop State Action Plans on Climate Change. Based on a detailed analysis of five state climate plans, this article finds that climate plans provide an important institutional platform to mainstream concerns of environmental sustainability into development planning but fail to update ideas of sustainability to include climate resilience. There are shortcomings in approach, process, formulation of outcomes, and implementation efforts. These shortcomings are united by a common thread – a tendency to prematurely view state climate plans as vehicles for generating implementable actions rather than an opportunity to redirect development towards climate resilience. However, if state plans are viewed as the beginning of a complex process of updating sustainable development planning rather than as an end in themselves, they provide a foundation upon which climate concerns can be more effectively mainstreamed in local development planning

State-led experimentation or centrally-motivated replication? A study of state action plans on climate change in India

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Mainstreaming climate change in state development planning : an analysis of the state strategy and action plan on climate change, Himachal Pradesh

The Himachal Pradesh Strategy and Action Plan on Climate Change reflects climate policy planning fashioned by central government directives, with external funding that is conditional upon some mitigation focus. Challenges of drafting the HP Plan were compounded by a change in government more than halfway through the policy process. Part of a larger project “Global Administrative Law: Improving Inter-institutional Connections in Global and National Regulatory Governance,” this series of reports reviews development of climate change planning processes in India, specific to various regions. Himachal Pradesh is a Himalayan state in the north of India, a mountainous region involved in forestry

Mainstreaming climate change in state development planning : an analysis of the Madhya Pradesh state action plan on climate change

A combination of time-constraints, capacity issues in accessing climate science, and the challenges of processing diverse inputs from consultations led to a disconnect between final recommendations and district level information generated, as well as climate projections. Part of a larger project “Global Administrative Law: Improving Inter-institutional Connections in Global and National Regulatory Governance,” this series of reports serves to review the development of the climate change planning process in India specific to various regions. Madhya Pradesh is a land-locked state in the heart of India, a bio-diverse region that straddles 11 agro-climatic zones