
Chapter 7
Environmental Ethics 239
Defi ciencies in the Draft Policy
The draft Environment Policy naturally attracted a great deal of attention, controversy and criticism.
According to Mr N. R. Krishnan, former Secretary, MoEF, there are, inter alia, three notable omis-
sions in the Draft Policy. These are as follows: (i) The NEP is silent on the energy front. Energy
has much relevance to environment, particularly in the context of global warming. Viewed in the
context of the country’s growing needs and the fact that we are already the sixth largest emitter of
greenhouse gases that cause global warming, India would be compelled, sooner or later, ...