POLITICIZATION OF GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY RESTRUCTURING IN INDIA

Among the issues concerning environment, global warming is drawing the highest attention in the global political landscape. The increased volumes of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), and ozone (O3), water vapor (H2O) in the atmosphere is positively correlated with global temperature. The main political concern about global warming began during the end of 1980s when US broke out the worst high-temperature. The extensive natural disasters drew public attention to the habitat and the issue of global warming was extensively covered by media, transforming the issue from science to politics. India as a responsible country with high moral ground is always devoted to emission reduction which allows the country to gain widespread respect and admiration throughout the world despite being a developing country.