Climate change and India's federalism

Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and and Farah Zahir

Chapter 11 in Decentralized Governance and Climate Change, 2025, pp 229-240 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter develops the case for a stronger and more collaborative intergovernmental approach to fighting climate change in India. The prevalent approach to combating climate change in India, based on sectoral policies, is incomplete because it fails to specify what level of government is responsible for regulating and implementing those policies and how they will be financed. We assess current institutions and practices within the four pillars of fiscal decentralization to clarify the assignment of functional responsibilities for decarbonization and adaptation and their financing. India seems to have the right framework for concurrent assignments of responsibilities. Currently, the main problem is the lack of enforcement of standards and regulations. States work with insufficient revenues, raising questions about the necessary fiscal space to finance their climate change policies. Thus, there is a need to reengineer India's current transfer policies to incentivize states in fighting climate change.

Keywords: Fiscal federalism; Climate change; India (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035356379
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