Why a clearer ‘green industrial policy’ matters for India: Reconciling growth, climate change and inequality

Gopinath, Deepak

Abstract

© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. To ensure a healthy growth of the economy particularly in the manufacturing sector, the Indian Government is more than ever focussed on promoting the use of sustainable and affordable energy resources. Recent initiatives such as the Solar Cities Development Programme are a good example. However, in order for these initiatives to gain legitimacy as part of a new ‘green industrial policy’, the Indian Government needs to do more, especially by bringing on board strategies for combating poverty within the gamut of this emerging ‘green industrial policy’ as well as to re-think India’s position on global conventions on climate change.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Aug 1, 2016
• Publication Date: Dec 1, 2016
• Deposit Date: Sep 18, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Sep 19, 2017
• Journal: Local Economy
• Print ISSN: 0269-0942
• Electronic ISSN: 1470-9325
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 31
• Issue: 8
• Pages: 830-835
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0269094216675434
• Keywords: climate change, green industrial policy, India, solar cities, sustainability
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/906959
• Publisher URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/0269094216675434
• Contract Date: Sep 19, 2017