Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi s Green Credit Programme (GCP), showcased at COP28, could potentially benefit businesses responsible for deforestation, according to environmental campaigners. The GCP allows privately owned tree plantations to generate tradeable credits for green actions, potentially leading to the large-scale privatisation of forested land and undermining legislation protecting forest rights.
The coal public sector units have identified about 3,075 hectares of afforested non-forest de-coaled land suitable for Accredited Compensatory Afforestation (ACA). Government has said that the public sector units operating in the coal sector have brought 18,849 hectares under green cover in the last 10 years by planting 42.3 million saplings, the government on Monday said.
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will be a standardised electronic database which would contain data such as issuance, holding, transfer and acquisition of Green Credits. Trading Platform - The trading platform will be an exchange of.
Agroforestry not only improves the ecology of the agricultural domain but can salvage the economic and social condition of farmers
Agroforestry in simple terms is a "sustainable land-use management system” that combines the cultivation of food crops (annuals) with woody perennials (such as