One of the most yawning gaps, however, in India’s climate action plan, which can be observed across the world as well, is the lack of a local climate action framework; the grand plans at the national level rarely trickle down to concrete steps at the regional level, where there can be real tangible change. Nonetheless, this absence of a ‘rule book’ at the smaller scale has led to an interesting turn of events in India: increasing local action as a result of the city’s interests and the rise of eco-citizens. 

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