This mission aims to increase forest cover across the country to serve as carbon sinks removing green house has been released by the government. The mission aims at increasing green house gas removal by India’s forest to 6.35% of the country’s total emissions by 2020. It aims to reach national target of 33% land area under forest and from the current level of 23%. Under CAMPA (compensatory afforestation fund management and planning Authority) it was planned to increase the forest area in India by 10 million ha till 2020.
Recognizing that climate change phenomena will seriously affect and alter the distribution, type and quality of natural resources of the country and the associated livelihoods of the people, the mission aims at addressing climate change by enhancing carbon sinks, adaptation of vulnerable species and forest dependent local communities in the face of climatic variability.
This will be done through increasing and restoring the forest cover all over the country. It also aims at monitoring additional parameters like ground cover, soil condition, erosion and infiltration, run off, ground water levels to develop water budgets as well as biomass monitoring indicators. Gram Sabha and its various committees would be strengthened as institutions of decentralized forest governance.
National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture-
