India’s Environmental Law, Policy Is About Protection, Equity And Justice: Yadav
Environmental diversity is a concept of species composition between areas correlated with differences in environmental conditions. This is potentially significant for conservation planning, said the union minister for environment forest and climate change Bhupender Yadav.
While addressing the valedictory session at the "Conference On Environmental Diversity And Environmental Jurisprudence: National And International Perspective" held at Chandigarh University, he said that India has been at the forefront in implementing its international commitments which were taken up in the Stockholm Conference in 1972.
Following the Stockholm Conference in 1972, the Water Act of 1974 and the Air Act of 1981 were enacted. We are currently implementing the national clean air plan (NCAP) which aims to clean up India’s air through a range of interventions from the local to the global, he informed.
Yadav noted that in pursuance of our commitment under the Rio Declaration, 1992 India has a robust Environmental Impact Assessment Process. We are today among the few countries in the world to implement the convention on biological diversity in letter and spirit, the minister underlined.
Yadav said that India has operationalised the access and benefit-sharing under the Nagoya protocol and I firmly believe that effective decision making power with regard to biodiversity should lie with the local communities. As a result 2,75,000 biodiversity management committees are today functional in India in every village and local body, he added.
