ABSTRACT
This chapter identifies the disconnection between higher climate regimes and local realities. Climate change has become a global environmental problem caused by the build-up of greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide and methane, in the Earth's atmosphere. The impacts of this problem threaten a range of issues, stretching from threats to biodiversity all the way to national security. Given the multidimensional nature of the climate change problem, there is a need to explore systems and mechanisms that can translate ideas into ground realities. As Popovski et al. (2015) have pointed out: As the authors move towards the post-Paris climate regime, understanding the complex and multi-faceted structure of integrity systems can help us construct agreements and mechanisms capable of fulfilling the roles they need them to play. Focusing on the national level, one can see the considerable amount of detail present in the National Action Plan on Climate Change, released in 2008, in order to guide India's climate policy.
