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How India’s Green Credit Programme has Reopened Old Wounds for Adivasis in Gujarat’s Dang
2 weeks, 4 days ago

How India’s Green Credit Programme has Reopened Old Wounds for Adivasis in Gujarat’s Dang

The Hindu  

Published : Dec 06, 2024 12:27 IST - 8 MINS READ As you leave behind the burgeoning Vansda city in the swiftly urbanising Valsad district, you cross over to The Dangs, Gujarat’s most forested region. Recently, compensatory afforestation drives, under older legislations such as the Compensatory Afforestation Fund Act 2016 and the newly notified Green Credit Programme 2023, are being …

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Green credits scheme: Retd civil servants urge Centre to recall tree plantation notification
9 months ago

Green credits scheme: Retd civil servants urge Centre to recall tree plantation notification

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi, A group of retired civil servants on Tuesday requested the Centre to withdraw a notification issued under the Green Credits Programme, alleging that it would make it easy for corporates to obtain forest land for their projects, leading to an "ecological disaster" and impacting the livelihoods of millions of pastoral and semi-pastoral communities. Notified on February 22, the …

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Reducing fossil fuel emissions might have greater climate benefits than afforestation: IISc study
1 year, 5 months ago

Reducing fossil fuel emissions might have greater climate benefits than afforestation: IISc study

The Hindu  

A study by the Center for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences in the Indian Institute of Science has revealed that reducing fossil fuel emissions might have greater climate benefits than afforestation. “We performed two major sets of idealised simulations in which fossil fuel emissions follow extended Shared Socioeconomic Pathway scenarios, and equal amounts of carbon are removed by afforestation in one …

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Odisha: State govt to create compensatory afforestation land bank
1 year, 7 months ago

Odisha: State govt to create compensatory afforestation land bank

Hindustan Times  

To facilitate smooth implementation of critical state and central projects requiring diversion of forests, the state government has decided to create a compensatory afforestation land bank of 10,000 hectare. A resolution of Revenue and Disaster Management department said the ‘Compensatory Afforestation Land Bank’ will be created in each district of the state by including degraded revenue forest lands. The lands …

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Centre may allow compensatory afforestation in neighbouring states for forest land diverted in Delhi
2 years, 3 months ago

Centre may allow compensatory afforestation in neighbouring states for forest land diverted in Delhi

India TV News  

The Union environment ministry may allow compensatory afforestation for all developmental projects undertaken in Delhi in neighbouring states in view of the scarcity of land in the capital, sources have said. In March, the DDA wrote to the Union environment ministry, requesting it to allow compensatory afforestation for all projects undertaken in Delhi in neighbouring states in view of the …

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Over 30 Lakh Trees Cut in India for Developmental Projects in 2020-21, None in Delhi: Govt
2 years, 9 months ago

Over 30 Lakh Trees Cut in India for Developmental Projects in 2020-21, None in Delhi: Govt

News 18  

Nearly 31 lakh trees were cut down for construction and development of public infrastructure projects across India in 2020-21, but not a single tree was felled in the national capital, the Centre said on Monday. Responding to a query raised in the Lok Sabha, Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav said as many as 30,97,721 trees were felled with approval under …

India Trees Forest Crore Tree Compensatory Afforestation 30 Lakh
KTR for net-zero emission rankings among states
2 years, 9 months ago

KTR for net-zero emission rankings among states

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Municipal administration and urban development minister K.T. Rama Rao on Friday urged the Centre to introduce a ranking system among states towards reaching net-zero emissions on the lines of the Ease of Doing Business rankings. He appealed to the Union forest ministry to have a pragmatic approach towards achieving net-zero emissions, which was a 2070 target set by Prime …

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In a first, compensatory afforestation of projects in Andaman to be done in MP
3 years, 11 months ago

In a first, compensatory afforestation of projects in Andaman to be done in MP

Hindustan Times  

In a first, carbon sinks for developments projects in Andaman and Nicobar Islands will be created over 2,000 kilometres away in Madhya Pradesh with the help of the forest department, government officials in the state and the islands said. Madhya Pradesh has about 1,000 degraded forest sites on over 40,000 hectares of land, where compensatory afforestation on behalf of Andaman …

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