Clean Technologies and Environmental Protection
Keywords:
Clean technology, constitutional and penal mandate, developing nations, environmental protection, sustainabilityAbstract
This research paper has been put forward by the researchers to examine the impact of clean technologies on environmental protection. The paper starts with an introduction wherein the researchers have defined the term clean technology along with its types and examples and its importance in the current scenario. Moving forward Chapter I talks about the factors contributing to the emergence of clean technology and its legal framework for which references have been taken from various acts, regulations and policies. Further, Chapter II lists out the roadblocks involved in the transfer of clean technologies from developed to developing nations, along with its viable solutions. Next, Chapter III mentions the positive impacts of clean technology and lays down the constitutional and penal mandates along with judicial pronouncements regulating clean technology. Finally, the paper concludes by stating the initiatives being launched from time to time by the government and the barriers it has been facing.
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