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  • Striving Towards ‘The Good Life’: What Environmental Litigation in India Can Tell Us About Climate Litigation in the Global South: Vedanta Ltd v. State of Tamil Nadu and Others, Supreme Court of India

  • Parul Kumar
  • Journal:
    Transnational Environmental Law / Volume 13 / Issue 3 / November 2024
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    23 December 2024, pp. 636-651
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  • The Supreme Court of India's judgment in Vedanta Ltd v. State of Tamil Nadu and Others, affirming the closure of Vedanta's copper smelting plant in Tuticorin in southern India, concludes a long and contentious chain of litigation. The plant's troubled history and the ensuing litigation reflect contestations between economic development, environmental and social devastation, human well-being, and corporate responsibility, which are often characteristic of environmental litigation in the global south. This article analyzes the significance of the Indian Supreme Court's reliance on established constitutional rights principles as well as settled environmental jurisprudence, and highlights the relevance of this judicial pronouncement for climate litigation in the global south.

  • 7 - Other Mitigation

  • from Section II - Responses to Climate Change
  • Wake Smith, Harvard University, Massachusetts
  • Book:
    Pandora's Toolbox
    Published online:
    24 February 2022
    Print publication:
    24 March 2022, pp 101-113

  • Summary

    Despite the many challenges in achieving complete decarbonization of our energy supply, succeeding in that Herculean task would solve merely two-thirds of our greenhouse gas emissions problem. This chapter addresses how we might tackle the other third. Topics covered include: fugitive methane emissions from fossil fuel production; CO2 emissions from both traditional and industrial biomass combustion; emissions of CO2, methane, and nitrous oxide from the agricultural sector; CO2 emissions from land use changes and the forestry sector; the full range of greenhouse gas emissions from the industrial sector unrelated to energy; and the ongoing release of methane from our waste streams. Tackling these diverse and myriad emission sources will greatly tax the ingenuity and budgets of humanity.