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Environmental Governance

The SoG integrates the governance aspects of environmental sustainability in the form of rule-setting, interpretation, market-shaping, negotiation, and enforcement efforts to enable climate and disaster resilient development, and biodiversity conservation and regeneration, along with various actors in the governance landscape.

 

This work focuses on:

  • Contributions to the global discourse and inter-governmental processes on environmental governance.
  • Examining policy and institutional enablers and barriers to climate action.
  • Embedding sustainability and resilience parameters into development strategies.

Featured Projects

  • Climate finance in India 2023 (2023)This report reviewed India’s climate finance landscape, estimated financing needs, enabling conditions, and macro policy tools to meet national 1.5ºC and 2ºC targets. It highlighted climate change’s projected negative impact on India’s economy (3–10 per cent of GDP) and the investment required (7–18 per cent of GDP) to meet the 1.5ºC goal.
  • Global Assessment Reports (GAR) on Disaster Risk Reduction (2009-present)The GAR reports are a biennial global assessment of disaster risk reduction published by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction since 2009, offering a comprehensive review and analysis of the natural hazards that are affecting humanity globally. Aromar Revi, Director, IIHS is a member of the Global Advisory Board that provides strategic advice and oversight for the reports, including the conceptualisation, development and mainstreaming of disaster risk reduction interventions.
  • Report on scaling up climate finance in the context of COVID-19 (2019-2020)IIHS was one of the lead institutional anchors for this study, which examined the IPCC Special Report on 1.5°C and its implications for the financial sector. IIHS led consultations with financial stakeholders in New York, London, and Delhi to analyse the finance–climate change nexus. The report proposed a roadmap to align finance with sustainable development, accelerating a net-zero, climate-resilient economy, and outlined four interventions in the COVID-19 context. It was funded by the Green Climate Fund (GCF).
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