Contact
In Residence
Ipshita is a partner at Dentons Rodyk LLP in the firm’s Environment and Natural Resources practice. Prior to this, she was the founding partner of C&C Advisors, an award-winning law firm that works exclusively on matters around sustainable development including international public environmental law, policy, clean-technology, green investments and supply chains, carbon finance, water and oceans. Ipshita is an alumna of the National University of Juridical Sciences, India [BA, LLB (Hons)] and the University of Melbourne (LLM in Environment and Energy Law). Ipshita has over 13 years of experience and has worked with businesses, governments (Indian, European, and the MENA region) and international organisations to build and move the environmental sector forward in policy-making and business.
Research
“Structuring ESG and green finance based on an Asia-centric approach by reconciling global trends with Asia’s development needs”
Ipshita’s research interests are:
- to identify gaps in national and international laws that impede the transition to a low-carbon economy.
- integrating sustainability into supply chains and harmonizing laws in different jurisdictions
- studying comparative biodiversity laws and access to genetic resources, benefit-sharing models.
- security and rule of law issues related to ocean law and policy – deep-sea mining, shipping and sulphur 2020, biodiversity beyond national jurisdictions.
Selected Publications
Articles
| » | Chaturvedi Ipshita, “Arguments Against a Universal Right of the River: A Case Study of the River Ganga and her Governance in India” Water International, 44:6-7, 719-735 |
| » | Chaturvedi Ipshita, “Application and Scope of Principles of International Law to Sustainable Consumption” Chinese Journal of Environmental Law (2018) 2:1 |
| » | Chaturvedi Ipshita, “India’s Carbon Tax Package: An Appraisal” Carbon and Climate Law Review (2016) Volume 10 (4), 194 |
| » | Chaturvedi Ipshita, “The Future of Renewables: An Appraisal of Feed-in Tariffs and Renewable Portfolio Standards” Journal of Resources, Energy and Development (September 2014) Volume 11(2) |
| » | Chaturvedi Ipshita, “Does the Clean Energy Act read together with the Minerals Resource Rent Tax provide an effective legal regime for the restriction of the mining and use of coal in Australia?” Australasian Journal of Natural Resources Law and Policy (2014) Volume 17 |
| » | Chaturvedi Ipshita, “One Scheme to Bind Them All – Should Emissions Trading Schemes be Linked?” The Asia Pacific Journal of Environmental Law (2014) Volume 17 |
| » | Chaturvedi Ipshita, “An Analysis of the principle of Free, Prior and Informed Consent in Light of the Right to Development: Can Consent be Normatively Withheld?” Journal of Indian Law and Society – (2014) Volume 5 (Winter) |
Book Reviews
| » | Eloise Scotford ‘Environmental Principles and the Evolution of Environmental Law’ (2017) Chinese Journal of Environmental Law (2018) 2:1 |
| » | Barbara Cooreman, ‘Global Environmental Protection Through Trade’ 13/1 Law, Environment and Development Journal (2017), p. 44, available at http://www.lead-journal.org/content/17044.pdf |
Op-eds
| » | Chaturvedi Ipshita, “COVID-19 and India: The Challenge of Marine Debris”, National Maritime Foundation |
| » | Sustainable Consumption and International Law, The Beam Magazine, Vol 8, 2019 (Berlin) |
| » | Leading the Conservation Narrative in the Indian Ocean Region (Exclusive Column), Sea and Coast Maritime Magazine, March 2019, Vol 3 Issue 2 |
| » | NGT’s Reluctance to hold Big Pharma accountable for polluting Telangana Waters unfortunate: Body is Passing the Buck (Firstpost, November 2017) |
| » | http://www.firstpost.com/india/ngts-reluctance-to-hold-big-pharma-accountable-for-polluting-telangana-waters-unfortunate-body-is-simply-passing-the-buck-4214063.html |
- Biodiversity law
- Regulation of global value-chains
- Climate change and access to justice
- New oceans agreement
- Carbon finance models in low-income countries