{"id":251792,"date":"2023-07-12T20:38:25","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T15:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=251792"},"modified":"2023-08-31T13:00:50","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T07:30:50","slug":"green-washing-changes-to-conservation-laws-must-be-backed-by-scientific-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/green-washing-changes-to-conservation-laws-must-be-backed-by-scientific-evidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Green washing – Changes to conservation laws must be backed by scientific evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on an article\u00a0\u201cGreen washing – Changes to conservation laws must be backed by scientific evidence<\/strong>\u201d published<\/strong> in The Hindu <\/strong>on\u00a012th<\/sup> July 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: <\/strong>GS 2 \u2013 Government Policies and Interventions for Development in various sectors and Issues arising out of their Design and Implementation<\/strong><\/p>\n

Relevance: <\/strong>concerns with t<\/strong>he Forest (Conservation) Amendment Bill, 2023.<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>: The Forest (Conservation) Amendment Bill, 2023 is currently under discussion by a Joint Committee of Parliament.<\/p>\n

What is the present legislation governing the industrial exploitation of forest land?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Forest (Conservation) Act of 1980<\/strong> empowers the state to regulate and impose costs on industrial exploitation of forest land.<\/p>\n

Further, SC ruling in the T.N. Godavarman Thirumalpad case (1996) <\/strong>expanded the scope of protection under the Forest (Conservation) Act of 1980 to even non-officially classified forests.<\/p>\n

What are the key provisions of the Forest (Conservation) Amendment Bill, 2023?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Read Here: <\/strong>Objections overruled, Forest Bill goes to House unchanged<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

What are the issues with the Forest (Conservation) Amendment Bill, 2023?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The amendments do not contribute significantly to regenerating natural forests<\/strong> but rather incentivize afforestation for commercial purposes.<\/p>\n

While the concept of grooming private forests may sound appealing in theory, expecting them to serve as a permanent carbon stock is unrealistic, considering the strong market incentives to use them as “carbon credits.”<\/p>\n

Read More: <\/strong>The Forest (Conservation) Amendment Bill, 2023 weakens the very purpose of the legislation, which is to protect and conserve India\u2019s forests<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

What is the present status of forest cover in India?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

As per the biennial reports of the Forest Survey of India,<\/strong> India\u2019s forest cover has seen only marginal increases. The growth in forest cover within officially recorded forests remains stagnant or shows only minor increments.<\/p>\n

However, it is tree cover in orchards, plantations and village homesteads that has been on the rise and supplementing India\u2019s claim that 24% of its area is under forest and tree cover.<\/p>\n

India, as part of its international climate commitments, has committed<\/strong> to increasing this number to 33% and adding a carbon sink of 2.5 billion to 3 billion tons of CO2 this way, by 2030.<\/p>\n

What is the way ahead?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Changes to conservation laws may be necessary. However, due to new climate realities, these changes should be supported by robust scientific evidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on an article\u00a0\u201cGreen washing – Changes to conservation laws must be backed by scientific evidence\u201d published in The Hindu on\u00a012th July 2023. Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 Government Policies and Interventions for Development in various sectors and Issues arising out of their Design and Implementation Relevance: concerns with the Forest (Conservation)… Continue reading Green washing – Changes to conservation laws must be backed by scientific evidence<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[59,216,10498],"class_list":["post-251792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-environment","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}