The Vanishing Point of Ecology Featuring Carbon Criminals: A Study of Ecocide in the South Asian Countries with a Special Focus on the Indian Landscape
description: The abounding ecosystem is increasingly being transformed by global warming, which has also resulted in sea level rise, melted glaciers, heat waves, altered precipitation patterns, and other climate impacts. India now ranks fifth in terms of climate change vulnerability. Weakening our natural defenses against climate-related calamities, it has already lost approximately one-third of its coastline, a third of its grasslands, and is losing wetlands at a pace of 23% annually. In recent times several scholarly works have framed this transgression under the rubrics of ecocide. Legal acceptance of ecocide is growing, albeit slowly, in India. Carbon criminals and climate crimes mirror exploration and hypothesis from a wide variety of disciplines; to break down four explicit concerns it plans to state-corporate environment-related crimes: such as extraction of non-renewable energy sources and rising fossil fuel by-products; political failure owing to mitigation of carbon emissions. Green criminology lays its focus to identify various environmental crimes and adjudges the liability of the States dissuading actions leading to the repercussions. Climate change reflects profound class and social inequalities leading to ecocidal tendencies. The chapter aims to discuss the dynamics involving carbon crimes and ecocide by identifying the perpetrators, issuing of responsibility, and responses to the causes of climate injustice across the South Asian countries and Indias pressing concerns on it. Further, endeavors are made to review legislations and offer operational solutions to achieving climate justice. The chapter undertakes South Asian countries as a territorial scope to assess the ecological damage. 2026 selection and editorial matter, Shanthakumar Sanjeevi and Dhanya S, individual chapters, the contributors.
creator: Shastri, Arunima; Chakraborty, Sourav
source: Green Criminology and Climate Justice: A South-Asian Perspective;pp.126-135
publisher: Taylor and Francis
date: 01-01-2026
rights: Restricted Access; Hardcopy may be available in the library
relation: ISBN: 978-104049256-7; 978-103247189-1;
language: English
type: Book chapter
coverage: Shastri A., School of Law CHRIST University, Bangalore, India; Chakraborty S.