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Adding green cover or a threat? The Forest (Conservation) Amendment Bill, explained
1 year, 4 months ago

Adding green cover or a threat? The Forest (Conservation) Amendment Bill, explained

Firstpost  

The Lok Sabha has passed the Forest Amendment Bill-2023. Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav said in Lok Sabha on Wednesday, “The primary objective of this Bill is to increase the forest area of the country to meet our goals of conservation of forests, conservation of biodiversity and the challenges posed by climate change… That is why we have decided to drop …

Law India Conservation National Security National Land Lok Sabha
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 …

Climate Fuel Emissions Ssp Carbon Fossil Carbon Removal
Anti-desertification efforts to drive environmental security
1 year, 6 months ago

Anti-desertification efforts to drive environmental security

China Daily  

Volunteers take part in an anti-desertification activity in Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia. Their home, Inner Mongolia, accounts for 23.7 percent of the national area of desertified land, making it one of China's most badly affected regions. "We have expanded forest coverage by over 6,666 sq km annually, and grassland by over 20,000 sq km," said Ma Qiang, deputy head of the …

China Land Inner Mongolia Measures Desertification Desertified Land
Rising green cover improves China's environment
2 years, 1 month ago

Rising green cover improves China's environment

China Daily  

SHI YU/CHINA DAILY Editor's note: Beijing has carried out an extensive afforestation campaign to mitigate the effects of air pollution and improve the environment especially over the past decade, in order to expedite the construction of an ecological civilization and boost high-quality development, writes a veteran journalist with China Daily. Over the past decade, Beijing, in its two rounds of …

China Trees Forest Beijing China Daily Cover Afforestation
Great Nicobar project gets in-principle clearance for diversion of 130 sq km of forest
2 years, 1 month ago

Great Nicobar project gets in-principle clearance for diversion of 130 sq km of forest

The Hindu  

The Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has granted an in-principle clearance for the diversion of 130.75 sq km of forest in Great Nicobar Island for the mega ₹72,000-crore project that includes a transshipment port, an airport, a power plant and a greenfield township. This is doubly significant because these are primary evergreen tropical forests with high biological …

Haryana Land Forest Project State Forest Land Cat
Cut a few, plant many: How one afforestation scheme helped Gujarat's tribals
2 years, 5 months ago

Cut a few, plant many: How one afforestation scheme helped Gujarat's tribals

Hindustan Times  

Ahmedabad : Fifty-year-old Dipakbhai Nayak has his eyes on the clouds in the sky, saying a silent prayer in his mind. The benefits of the Malki scheme have been demonstrated in a paper published in June 2022 in the Elsevier journal published titled “Analyzing the effectiveness of the ‘Malki Practice’ which said that locals got ₹300 crore through this scheme …

India Gujarat Land Trees Forest Cut Area
Restoration of ecosystem: Have tree planting efforts borne fruit?
2 years, 6 months ago

Restoration of ecosystem: Have tree planting efforts borne fruit?

The Hindu  

In a recent article, the author and journalist Manu Joseph used the term “Low-stakes niceness” to describe the act of feeding animals that most Indians indulge in. In 2017, the Tamil Nadu government planted 68 lakh tree saplings across the State to mark the then Chief Minister Jayalalitha’s 68th birthday. A recent long-term study from Himachal Pradesh showed that more …

India Indian Ecosystem Tree Planting Plantations Afforestation Planted
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 …

Forest State Rao
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 …

Development Land Forest Forest Land Islands Pradesh Madhya Pradesh
Delhi Aims at 25 per cent Green Cover by 2023
4 years, 3 months ago

Delhi Aims at 25 per cent Green Cover by 2023

News 18  

The Delhi government has set an ambitious target to increase the city's green cover from 22 percent at present to 25 percent in the next three years, officials said on Thursday. According to the latest India State of Forest Report released in 2019, Delhi's green cover, comprising forest and tree cover, is 324 sq km or 21.9 percent of the …

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