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Green credit rules tweaked to favour canopy cover, remove trade provision

Simrin Sirur 4 Sep 2025

Ground truthing exercises for forest degradation mapping, integrating field data with satellite-based analysis. Image courtesy of TERI

Global REDD+ standards fail local forests [Commentary]

Sayanta Ghosh, Jitendra Vir Sharma 20 Aug 2025

Deepor Beel in Kamrup is Assam’s only Ramsar site, despite the state having over 1,000 wetlands, many of which face growing threats from pollution and development. Image by Hirakjyoti Bayan via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Wetlands hold carbon and climate hope

Nandhini Somasundaram 14 Jul 2025

A welder at work in a steel manufacturing unit. Representative image by Jay Hariani via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Nine projects in India produced ‘problematic’ carbon credits in 2024, says report

Simrin Sirur 2 Jul 2025

Green credit scheme encourages ‘environment-friendly’ behaviour, but needs strong regulation to work

Simrin Sirur 11 Jul 2023

Image shows a yellow petrol truck on a road bordered by coconut trees in India

Storing or reusing captured carbon is emerging as tool in energy transition

Kundan Pandey 22 May 2023

India set to build its own carbon credit market, change building bylaws for energy efficiency

Manish Kumar 18 Aug 2022