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Climate Risk: Critical
Challenges
No model of economic growth can sustain for
long if it doesn’t respect ecology in local and regional context, and at the
same time the environment as broad concern including the inter-relationships of
natural, human-made and socio-cultural environments
I
recall my first national publication in Yojana in June 1993 issue which
reviewed the efficacy and status of India’s environmental legislation, following
the strategic article by then Prime Minister Late Sri Narsimha Rao depicting
the concern on environment and extrapolating it for sustainability of economic growth.
India has a prestigious history on environmental fronts - be it the Stockholm
Conference in 1972 which was attended by Late Smt. Indira Gandhi, or the UN
Conference on Environment and Development, 1992 at Brazil where India’s
contribution and eco-concerns
also figured in shaping the historic
Agenda 21. It was in 1991 that the Hon’ble Supreme Court issued a
directive for compulsory environmental studies in all undergraduate
programmes in the country. It is regrettable that it hasn’t been uniformly
implemented even with the passage of two decades.
