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					<title>Carbon markets fund plantations and livelihoods</title>
					<link>https://india.mongabay.com/2025/07/carbon-markets-fund-plantations-and-livelihoods/</link>
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					<pubDate>08 Jul 2025 14:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Vishal Kumar Jain]]>
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						<![CDATA[Shailesh Shrivastava]]>
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		<category><![CDATA[Carbon Market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carbon offsets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fruits]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Jharkhand]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Carbon emissions, Carbon Finance, Carbon Trading, Plantations, Plants, Timber, and Trees]]>
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							<![CDATA[Last year, while countries and organisations from across the world gathered in Azerbaijan’s capital Baku for COP29 and discussed carbon trading rules, about 3,800 km away, farmers living in Jharkhand were excited on learning that they would receive carbon finance funds in a few months. Farmers in Childari village in Bedo block of Ranchi, famous [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Last year, while countries and organisations from across the world gathered in Azerbaijan’s capital Baku for COP29 and discussed carbon trading rules, about 3,800 km away, farmers living in Jharkhand were excited on learning that they would receive carbon finance funds in a few months. Farmers in Childari village in Bedo block of Ranchi, famous for peas and other vegetables, have chosen to avail the benefits of carbon finance — financial resources like loans, investments and subsidies given to acquire greenhouse gas emission allowances. Carbon financing will be done through growing fruit-bearing trees under the Birsa Harit Gram Yojana (BHGY) — a state government scheme that aims to conserve barren land and make it cultivable to amplify livelihoods. According to the Economic Survey of Jharkhand (2023-24), the BHGY scheme has been running since 2016-17 under MNREGA with an aim to increase employment opportunities in the state. Under this scheme, 135,122 farmers have planted mango and other fruit-bearing trees in 1,16,637 acres. Eligible farmers with a maximum of one acre of land are provided with financial help as well as assistance for five years. It is estimated that thanks to the scheme, each family has managed to earn profits of more than ₹50,000 annually. There, however, was a catch. It wasn’t clear how marginal farmers would continue maintaining their plantations after five years. To overcome this problem, the BHGY scheme has been linked to the carbon finance scheme, which will provide additional income to the beneficiaries for the next 20 years.&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://india.mongabay.com/2025/07/carbon-markets-fund-plantations-and-livelihoods/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Private sector to re-green India’s wastelands?</title>
					<link>https://india.mongabay.com/2018/12/private-sector-to-re-green-indias-wasteland/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Dec 2018 10:53:52 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Mayank Aggarwal]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Mayank Aggarwal]]>
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		<category><![CDATA[agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plantations]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Forests, Non-Timber Forest Produce, People, Reserved Forest, and Timber]]>
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							<![CDATA[What is the best strategy for increasing green cover outside recorded forest areas? Leasing of wasteland to the corporate sector for re-greening is among the major recommendations that a report by an expert committee formed by India’s Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has suggested. The committee has also recommended “evolving business models [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[What is the best strategy for increasing green cover outside recorded forest areas? Leasing of wasteland to the corporate sector for re-greening is among the major recommendations that a report by an expert committee formed by India’s Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has suggested. The committee has also recommended “evolving business models for tree cultivation” supported by “rationalised policy and regulatory regime, including those of felling and transit, insurance”, issuance of green bonds, development of appropriate public-private partnership (PPP) models involving the private sector and forest corporations. It also called for an amendment of the Indian Forest Act 1927 for “revisiting the definition of forest produce” and “issuance of a pan-India transit pass for agroforestry produce”. India aims to increase the contribution of TOF (trees outside forests) in meeting the goal of having 33 percent of India’s geographical area under the forest and tree cover (FTC), achieve the Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC, also referred as NDC) targets of creating an additional carbon sink of 2.5 to 3 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent through additional forest and tree cover by 2030 and improve the farmers’ income and reduce the trade deficit in wood. To address such issues, the MoEFCC in January 2018 formed an expert committee to suggest ways to increase green cover outside forests. The report of the committee led by Abhijit Ghose, a retired Indian Forest Service officer, was recently made public by the MoEFCC. It observed that “most of the experts agree that achievement&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://india.mongabay.com/2018/12/private-sector-to-re-green-indias-wasteland/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Is the new forest policy draft missing the wood for the trees?</title>
					<link>https://india.mongabay.com/2018/04/is-the-new-forest-policy-draft-missing-the-wood-for-the-trees/</link>
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					<pubDate>09 Apr 2018 08:48:45 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[S. Gopikrishna Warrier]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[S. Gopikrishna Warrier]]>
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							<![CDATA[Hewing The Regulatory Tree]]>
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							<![CDATA[Maharashtra]]>
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							<![CDATA[Community based conservation, Deforestation, Ecosystem services, Forest Carbon, Forest Rights Act, Forestry, Forests, Indigenous Peoples, Industry, Non-Timber Forest Produce, People, Reforestation, and Timber]]>
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							<![CDATA[The national government has initiated the process of revamping the National Forest Policy. The policy that is in place currently was announced 30 years ago and is known as the National Forest Policy 1988 (NFP-1988). The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has published for public comments the Draft National Forest Policy 2018 [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The national government has initiated the process of revamping the National Forest Policy. The policy that is in place currently was announced 30 years ago and is known as the National Forest Policy 1988 (NFP-1988). The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has published for public comments the Draft National Forest Policy 2018 (DNFP-2018). The DNFP-2018 aims to “safeguard the ecological and livelihood security of people, of the present and future generations, based on sustainable management of the forests for the flow of ecosystem services. In order to achieve the national goal for eco-security, the country should have a minimum of one-third of the total land area under forest and tree cover. In the hills and mountainous regions, the aim will be to maintain two-third of the area under forest &amp; tree cover in order to prevent soil erosion and land degradation and also to ensure the stability of the fragile eco-systems.” The objectives include the maintenance of environmental stability and conservation of biodiversity; reversal of the degradation of forests; improvement of the livelihoods of people through the sustainable use of ecosystem services; and also help in meeting India’s greening goals under its Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs). Further, it talks about maintaining soil quality; safeguarding forestlands; managing protected areas and other wildlife rich areas; protecting watersheds; and increasing tree cover outside forests. There is much livelihood support from forests for the poor communities living close by. Photo by S. Gopikrishna Warrier / Mongabay. There is also mention&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://india.mongabay.com/2018/04/is-the-new-forest-policy-draft-missing-the-wood-for-the-trees/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Palani Hills: Where have the grasslands gone?</title>
					<link>https://india.mongabay.com/2018/02/palani-hills-where-have-the-grasslands-gone/</link>
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					<pubDate>20 Feb 2018 11:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Vrushal Pendharkar]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[S. Gopikrishna Warrier]]>
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							<![CDATA[Tamil Nadu and Western Ghats]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Forests, Grasslands, Plantations, Plants, Shola-grasslands, and Timber]]>
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							<![CDATA[Almost smack in the centre of the Palani hill range that forms the eastern spur of the Western Ghats, lies the hill station of Kodaikanal. This once sleepy idyllic getaway now, like many others, bustles with tourists, vehicles and is overrun by indiscriminate construction. Situated at an elevation of over 2000 meters, Kodaikanal was once [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Almost smack in the centre of the Palani hill range that forms the eastern spur of the Western Ghats, lies the hill station of Kodaikanal. This once sleepy idyllic getaway now, like many others, bustles with tourists, vehicles and is overrun by indiscriminate construction. Situated at an elevation of over 2000 meters, Kodaikanal was once surrounded by pockets of sky island sholas nestled amidst hills of rolling grasslands on rocky mountain cliffs. The upper plateaus of the Western Ghats, rising above 2000 m, serve as sky islands because they are pockets of temperate climate nestled within tropical latitudes. Thus, they support unique biodiversity. This was until the British administration moved into the hills in the later part of the 19th century. Terming the vast grasslands as barren, the British reshaped the Palani hills by planting exotic woody trees like black wattle (Acacia mearnsii), eucalyptus and pine. The policy of planting these trees, which could be used as pulp for paper and rayon industries, continued even later with the Tamil Nadu Government’s policies. In the last century, these foreign imports have run such a riot in the region that they have taken over the shola forests and annexed the grasslands. A recent study by a team of researchers from the Indian National Trust for Arts and Heritage (INTACH), Kodaikanal; Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Tirupati; Vattakanal Conservation Trust, Kodaikanal; Ashoka Trust for Research on Ecology and Environment (ATREE), Bengaluru and others examines how native vegetation in Palani hills&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://india.mongabay.com/2018/02/palani-hills-where-have-the-grasslands-gone/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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