As COP30 rolls out a tropical forest fund, how are India’s natural forests doing?

As COP30 rolls out a tropical forest fund, how are India’s natural forests doing?

Part 4 of CarbonCopy’s forest series finds that even as the Forest Survey of India pegs India’s forest cover at 21.76%, satellite images show functional forest ecosystems cover just 1-10% of India’s land mass. A conflict of interest has dominated India’s forest cover estimates for a long time. While the Union Ministry for Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC) oversees the country’s forests, Dehradun-based Forest Survey of India (FSI) …