Author
Asst Prof SHOVA DEVI
Organisation/Institution
Amity Law School Lucknow, Amity University, India
Country
INDIA
Panel
Environmental Law
Title
Legal Pathway for a Sustainable and Carbon-Neutral Asia: A Comparative Study of India, China, and Japan
Abstract
Legal Pathway for a Sustainable and Carbon-Neutral Asia: A Comparative Study of India, China, and Japan Dr. Shova Devi Assistant Professor, Amity Law School Lucknow, Amity University, India Abstract In light of growing climate risks and swift economic growth, Asian countries have made the shift to a carbon-neutral future a top goal. In order to assess the efficacy, coherence, and structure of national climate laws and policy frameworks aimed at attaining long-term net-zero emissions, this study conducts a comparative legal analysis of three of Asia's largest economies and greenhouse gas emitters: China, Japan, and India. The report assesses the institutional structures, sector-specific mitigation measures, carbon pricing models, renewable energy laws, and legislative procedures of each nation. This study identifies areas of convergence, divergence, and structural gaps in the legal pathways of China's Emissions Trading Scheme and Five-Year Plan directives, Japan's Act on Global Warming Countermeasures alongside the Green Transformation (GX) Strategy, and India's Energy Conservation Act and National Action Plan on Climate Change. The study identifies problems such inadequate enforcement, low carbon-market efficiency, a strong reliance on fossil fuels, and unclear regulations using a comparative technique. The paper also looks at how the judiciary, federal-local coordination, and corporate disclosure requirements may help or hinder the net-zero transition. The study makes implication that even if every nation has made great strides, there are still big gaps in the development of regional climate governance, accountability, and standardization. In order to achieve a sustainable and carbon-neutral Asia, the study ends with a set of legal and policy proposals, such as improved regional carbon markets, a more integrated model of Asian climate cooperation, and more robust compliance regimes. Keywords: Net-zero emissions, Climate law, Energy transition, Comparative analysis, Asia sustainability.
Biography
Dr. Shova Devi is an Assistant Professor at Amity Law School Lucknow, Amity University, Lucknow, India. Before Joining ALSL, she was a faculty at Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur, India. She has pursued her Doctorate from Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur West Bengal, India. Her area of research includes Intellectual Trade and Commercial Law, Human Rights, Dr. Shova has strong orientation towards research and presented her work at National and International platforms like World Biodiversity Congress 2016 and Tropical Ecology Congress 2015. She has delivered invited lectures at various state level and national level platforms. She is the Incharge of LLM Prog. and hosted Online Certificate course programs and contributed as speaker and Course Coordinator. Her area of specialisation are International Law, Intellectual Property Rights , and environmental law.
