Author(s): Varsha Singh and Amit Kumar Singh

Abstract: The rapidly deteriorating environment in India offers severe enough a challenge for both regulators and courts, as also administrators, to confront. Many conventional enforcement approaches have failed to achieve effective enforcement of environmental rules, given an increasingly rapid industrialization, deforestation and urbanization. New technologies, including AI, offer new possibilities to be able to monitor, analyze and act on environmental infringements in real time. From satellite monitoring to predictive analytics to smart sensors, AI-driven technologies hold great potential for automated environmental enforcement. But the technological innovation gives rise to pressing questions on constitutional protection, legal acceptability, regulatory readiness, algorithmic prejudice, data confidentiality and public accountability. This paper offers a critical examination of the intersection between AI and environmental law in India, focusing on the legal lacunae pertaining to automated environmental enforcement. Based on comparative international practice and constitutional jurisprudence, it advocates the development of an integrated legal framework acknowledging the significance of AI in environmental governance, but guaranteeing transparency, fairness and environmental justice. The paper ends with specific proposals for statutory changes, judicial capacity building, and ethical governance models to enable a responsible and rights-based adoption of AI in the environmental regulation mechanism in India.

DOI: 10.22271/2790-0673.2025.v5.i2b.229

Pages: 157-161 | Views: 769 | Downloads: 400

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