{"id":239690,"date":"2023-04-26T19:43:14","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T14:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=239690"},"modified":"2023-04-26T19:43:14","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T14:13:14","slug":"the-right-to-litigate-use-of-legal-remedies-to-limit-natures-exploitation-is-at-the-core-of-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-right-to-litigate-use-of-legal-remedies-to-limit-natures-exploitation-is-at-the-core-of-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"The right to litigate – Use of legal remedies to limit nature\u2019s exploitation is at the core of democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cThe right to litigate – Use of legal remedies to limit nature\u2019s exploitation is at the core of democracy\u201d <\/b>published in The Hindu <\/b>on\u00a026th April 2023<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus<\/strong>: GS \u2013 3: Environment and Bio-diversity Conservation<\/p>\n

Relevance<\/strong>: About coal-fired plants.<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has recently registered a case against an environmental lawyer and his organisation for violating Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act (FCRA) provisions. The CBI has said that they are using foreign funds to encourage litigation that will stall existing and prospective coal-fired plants in India.<\/p>\n

About India’s climate ambitions<\/h2>\n

As a signatory to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and various key agreements, India has undertaken initiatives to gradually reduce reliance on fossil fuel sources and become \u2018net zero\u2019 by 2070.<\/p>\n

India has consistently endorsed reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that mentions the urgency of ensuring global temperatures do not exceed 1.5\u00b0C of pre-industrial times. Thereby necessitating that global net anthropogenic CO2 emissions decline by about 45% from 2010 levels by 2030.<\/p>\n

Can India continue to operate coal-fired plants?<\/h2>\n

Under the principles of \u2018Common and Differentiated Responsibility\u2019, India has maintained its right to rely on coal plants in the interim as it is still a developing economy.<\/p>\n

The actual cost of renewable sources (solar, wind and nuclear) remains much more than that of fossil-fuel power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read more: <\/strong>Phasing Out Coal in India \u2013 Explained, Pointwise<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

About India’s upcoming coal-fired plants and challenges in execution<\/h2>\n

India has 28.5 GW of coal power capacity planned and 32 GW of plants are under construction. But a majority of their commissioning has been delayed due to<\/p>\n

-Insufficient environment clearances, land acquisition<\/strong>, and redevelopment and rehabilitation-related problems<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

–Rulings by the National Green Tribunal<\/strong> and lack of adherence to norms prescribed<\/strong> mainly under provisions of the Environment Protection and related legislation.<\/p>\n

-Funding for new coal plants is increasingly difficult<\/strong> with multilateral funding agencies refusing to fund such plants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read more: <\/strong>Coal crisis in India \u2013 Explained, pointwise<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Is using legal remedies to limit the operation of coal-fired plants wrong?<\/h2>\n

No. In India, many coal plants run inefficiently and rely on lenient environmental curbs as they are critical to India\u2019s power needs.\u00a0 In this situation, using legal remedies to limit the industrial exploitation of nature and ensuring just compensation is at the core of a civilised democracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cThe right to litigate – Use of legal remedies to limit nature\u2019s exploitation is at the core of democracy\u201d published in The Hindu on\u00a026th April 2023. Syllabus: GS \u2013 3: Environment and Bio-diversity Conservation Relevance: About coal-fired plants. News: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has recently registered… Continue reading The right to litigate – Use of legal remedies to limit nature\u2019s exploitation is at the core of democracy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[216,10498],"class_list":["post-239690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}