Indo-China Workshop on Environmental and Climate Law

India and China, as two of the world’s most populous and economically influential nations, play critical roles in shaping global environmental regulation and addressing climate change challenges. Recently, both countries have established ambitious Net Zero Goals and are actively increasing their renewable energy generation capacity as a response to the global climate concerns. However, approaches adopted by India and China to addressing contemporary environmental and climate challenges involve considerations unique to their respective legal frameworks and socio-economic contexts. A comparative analysis of environmental and climate law in India and China can shed light on how these legal systems – together, encompassing one-third of the world’s population and greenhouse gas emissions – address ecological and climate-related issues.

The workshop ‘Contemporary Environmental and Climate Challenges: Indo-China Perspectives’ aims to convene leading experts in environmental and climate law from both India and China to engage in discussions surrounding legal frameworks, governance mechanisms, and commitments to sustainability within each jurisdiction. By exploring the environmental and climate law and policy of these two nations, the workshop seeks to identify challenges, strategies and insights to draw from that can influence global sustainability efforts.