Paper: GS – III, Subject: Environment and Ecology, Topic: Indian Initiative, efforts, Issue: Revised Green India Mission.
Context:
The Centre has released a revised roadmap for the Green India Mission (GIM), a key part of India’s national strategy to tackle climate change. The updated plan focuses on increasing forest and tree cover, restoring degraded ecosystems, and addressing land degradation and desertification.
- It emphasizes region-specific restoration in ecologically sensitive areas like the Aravalli Range, Western Ghats, Himalayas, and mangrove ecosystems, aiming to enhance carbon sequestration and climate resilience by 2030.
Key Takeaways:
The National Mission for a Green India:
- The National Mission for a Green India (GIM) was launched in 2014 as one of the eight core missions under India’s National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC).
- The mission aims to protect, restore, and enhance forest and tree cover in India while addressing the challenges of climate change through both adaptation and mitigation strategies.
- The Green India Mission is being implemented over a 10-year period from 2021 to 2030.
- A portion of the plantation activities has already been completed.
- If the current trend of over 2 million hectares of annual tree plantation continues, it could cover another 12 million hectares between 2025 and 2030.
Key Objectives and Targets:
- One of the primary objectives of the mission is to increase forest and tree cover on five million hectares of forest and non-forest land.
- Additionally, the mission seeks to improve the quality of forest cover on another five million hectares.
- The mission also contributes to India’s climate commitments by aiming to create an additional carbon sink of 2.5 to 3 billion tonnes of CO₂ equivalent, as part of its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement.
States are selected based on:
- Ecological vulnerability
- Potential for carbon sequestration
- Forest and land degradation levels
- Restoration potential
Revised Green India Mission key highlights:
In essence, the revised GIM aligns ecological restoration with India’s climate goals, making forests a cornerstone in the fight against land degradation and global warming.
https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/revised-green-india-mission-gim-10076240/
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