Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2021.1933800
Title: The limits of opportunism: The uneven emergence of climate institutions in India
Authors: Pillai, Aditya Valiathan
Dubash, Navroz Kersi 
Keywords: Climate politics
climate institutions
co-benefits
path dependence
historical institutionalism
climate equity
Issue Date: 7-Jun-2021
Publisher: Routledge
Citation: Pillai, Aditya Valiathan, Dubash, Navroz Kersi (2021-06-07). The limits of opportunism: The uneven emergence of climate institutions in India. Environmental Politics 30 (sup1) : 93-117. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2021.1933800
Abstract: India’s centrality to global mitigation efforts makes it an important point of inquiry in studies of climate governance. However, we understand little of how climate change has been institutionalized in India’s decision-making processes. We capture the emergence and decline of climate institutions over three decades, showing how political conditions have shaped institutional form. The politics of opportunism has animated institutional development. It resolves the tension between India’s global leadership ambitions and a deeply entrenched, equity-focused narrative frame that rejects incurring large mitigation costs. Climate institutions have therefore been layered upon existing bodies and processes to create room for the organic, bottom-up growth of policies that meet development objectives while promoting mitigation. While this structure limits polarization around climate action, it also inhibits strategic intent, particularly because strong cross-governmental institutions have been unable to take root.
Source Title: Environmental Politics
URI: https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/224784
ISSN: 0964-4016
1743-8934
DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2021.1933800
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