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Modi Opens NGT Conference Framing Cumulative Climate Harm As a Rights Issue

The gathering signals a judicial shift toward treating aggregated environmental damage as implicating basic rights while pressing for firmer enforcement at home and abroad.

He said that the challenges immediately ahead will be more demanding as countries are transitioning to new forms of energy generation that require new infrastructure, new technologies and new patterns of land and resource use. (ANI)
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'SC Stood As Banyan Tree Of Environmental Justice': CJI Surya Kant Says Climate Issues Have 'No Geographical Boundaries'
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Overview

  • Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the two‑day National Green Tribunal conference in New Delhi on Saturday, September 19, convening judges, experts and officials from 17 countries to discuss climate and environmental governance.
  • Chief Justice Surya Kant used the opening session to push courts to harmonise development with conservation, endorsing 'eco‑centric proportionality' and urging judges to assess cumulative ecological harm rather than isolated project impacts.
  • Attorney General R Venkataramani called for stronger global institutions for environmental justice and raised the idea of a common, enforceable international environmental justice court as a step beyond treaties and declarations.
  • Domestic policy work was spotlighted alongside international dialogue: the Environment Ministry presented National Clean Air Programme awards, NGT leaders urged citizen responsibility and scientific action on air quality, and the NGT mobile application was reported launched at the event.
  • The conference builds on decades of Indian environmental jurisprudence and could shape how courts weigh rights such as health and livelihood in climate cases; participants will reconvene for technical sessions and a valedictory address expected on Sunday, September 20.