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AARTI DHAR / The hindu.
Union Minister of State for Environment & Forests Jairam Ramesh along with U.N. Resident Coordinator India Patrice Coeur Bizot (L) and Executive Director of U.N. Environment Programme Achim Steiner (R), release the UNEP report on 'Green Economy and the Forest' on the occasion of World Environment Day, in New Delhi on Sunday - PTI.
Backed by the right kind of enabling policies, such an investment – equivalent to about two-thirds more than what is spent on the sector at present – could also remove an extra 28 per cent of carbon from the atmosphere, thus playing a key role in combating climate change, says the UN report “Forests in a Green Economy: A Synthesis.’’
Investing an additional $40 billion annually in the forestry sector can halve deforestation rates by 2030, increase rates of tree planting by about 140 per cent by the year 2050, and catalyse the creation of millions of new jobs, according to a report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).
Backed by the right kind of enabling policies, such an investment – equivalent to about two-thirds more than what is spent on the sector at present – could also remove an extra 28 per cent of carbon from the atmosphere, thus playing a key role in combating climate change, says the UN report “Forests in a Green Economy: A Synthesis.’’
The report underlines that natural capital such as forests can represent up to 90 per cent of the GDP of the rural poor. India is among a dozen countries taking the global findings of the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity into national assessment that in turn could translate the value of nature and its services into national accounts. Carefully planned investments would also contribute to increased employment from 25 million now to 30 million by 2050.
Green India Plan
I have been contending that subsidy on LPG to be applicable only to people below poverty line and those who, due to poverty, use firewood and the rest like Jairam Ramesh & me should buy unsubsidized LPG and very unfortunately such Gas cylinders are not available in the market for us to buy.
Further we should stop subsidized kerosene to the mobile tower generators and should make it mandatory that they use Biodiesel or BioPetrol (Ethanol).
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