Revised roadmap for Green India Mission

Key Points

• 1The Green India Mission (GIM) is a key component of India’s efforts to combat the effects of climate change.
• 2The GIM was rolled out in 2014 as one of the eight missions under India’s National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC).
• 3Its core aim is to combat climate change by increasing forest and tree cover and the ecological restoration of degraded ecosystems and forests.
• 4A central focus of the revised mission plan will be on the restoration and saturation of vulnerable landscapes through regionally conducive best practices.
• 5India aims to create an additional carbon sink of 2.5 to 3 billion tonnes of CO2 through additional forest and tree cover by 2030.
• 6The GIM and allied interventions, such as the Green Wall project, are designed to help meet these goals.