In mid-December, the international environmental discourse was bustling with analyses of the good and the bad of the Paris climate summit. Questions were being raised on what would bind countries to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and whether it was realistic to expect the world to wean itself from fossil fuels in the near future.
At the same time, a small but strong group of forest-dwellers in central India were neck-deep in demanding legal compliance to, once again, protect their lives, livelihoods and homes from the impacts of a coal mine.
A legal challenge and subsequent judgment of. . .