Green India Mission

The impetus for the Mission was, patently, the desire of the government to make some concrete and specific proposals for addressing the climate change crisis.The ministry team was initially mandated with coming up with a single figure and a clear strategy to sequester carbon in forests (through both...

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Published in:Economic and political weekly 2016-01, Vol.51 (5), p.4-4
Main Author: Kumar, P J Dilip
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Climate change
Environmental aspects
Forest conservation
Forests
India
Kumar, Dilip
LETTERS
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Summary:The impetus for the Mission was, patently, the desire of the government to make some concrete and specific proposals for addressing the climate change crisis.The ministry team was initially mandated with coming up with a single figure and a clear strategy to sequester carbon in forests (through both quality improvement and expansion). [...]the team took pains to move the government away from a single-dimensioned harping on carbon sequestration towards a more flexible, multi-stakeholder, multi-interest programme that would address the underlying processes and causes of forest degradation (as required by REDD+), rather than just the forest biomass. [...]the public consultation meetings organised by the ministry in over half a dozen places in the country had one weakness: they did not provide public space for the staff to comment.
ISSN:0012-9976
2349-8846