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2019 recorded four of the world’s hottest & eight of the wettest 15 places across the globe, in India.
600 million at risk, no national study conducted but somehow minister @PrakashJavdekar knows there has been no impact of #ClimateCrisis
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Under Paris Agreement, India was to create an additional ‘carbon sink’ of 2.5 to 3 billion tonnes of CO2 equivalent through additional forest, tree cover by 2030.
India’s Biennial Update indicates the opposite:
68,215 gigatonnes in 2014 vs 200,036 in 2010
Between 2015 and 2019, India's environment ministry gave permission to cut a further 1,09,75,844 trees for 'development' work.
This number excludes trees lost due to forest fires.
The National Action Plan on Climate Change is not just grossly underfunded, its turned negative:
Budget allocation of ₹47.80 crore for FY 2017-18 was less than the amount needed to even finance the committed liability generated in previous years.
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The trend of shrinking carbon sinks will accelerate with trees under threat from urban, highway, river linking, mining, metro, rail development projects.
Reducing tree cover in India is not just a global issue, its local impacts are immediate & severe.
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