February 11, 2021
India's performance on achieving its NDC has been progressive and impressive. To achieve the additional carbon sink of 2.5 to 3 billion tonne, India needs to almost double its forest cover. A holistic approach with balanced political, financial, legal and institutional efforts are much needed. It needs to sustain the momentum of increasing its energy efficiency along with a high rate of afforestation to achieve the 2030 NDC targets.
February 11, 2021
A substantial financial allocation to the tune of around 60,000 crore per annum will be required for SFM.
A financial gap of 48,744 crore needs to be filled to achieve NDCs target by adopting innovative financial mechanism such as
Deployment of LPG Connection to the Forest-Dependent Community, Implementing MSP Scheme for Agroforestry and by Formulating Carbon Neutrality Policy at National Level
February 11, 2021
The coastal ecosystems — Mangroves, Sea grasses, and Tidal marshes — commonly referred to as blue carbon ecosystems store half the "blue" carbon buried beneath the ocean floor.
The carbon that is stored in the coastal ecosystems remain trapped for very long periods of time and thus resulting in very large carbon stock.
The carbon stock in these ecosystems and the existing or potential carbon emissions must be quantified.
Mangroves are fairly well mapped, large areas containing seagrass meadows are largely surveyed but areas of tidal salt
February 11, 2021
Agroforestry can contribute more than 2 billion tons of CO2e by 2030 if government provides them Minimum Support Price (MSP) of timber produced by farmer.
Minimum Support Price will provide a social safety net to farmers by taking care of the economic interest of the farmer in case of the market failure of the respective agroforestry species and will motivate farmers for planting more species under agroforestry.
February 11, 2021
The policy brief focuses on analysing gaps and challenges, target setting to achieve the forest carbon sink by 2030 as well as various other issues related to achieving the target such as Forecasting Financial resources, Analyzing the Institutional Framework, Strengthening Agroforestry, Policy interventions, Sustainable Forest Management.
2015 has been suggested to be selected as the baseline year rather than 2005, as many technological and methodological upgradations have taken place in various spheres.
February 11, 2021
The policy brief focuses on analyze the emission, status of sequestration, emission reduction as well as the future potential of sequestration of different land use sectors in India.
Five land use sectors have been identified for the study viz.
