Journal of Forest and Environmental Science

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Barriers to Realization of Forestry Mitigation Potential in India

  • Murthy, Indu K (Centre for Sustainable Technologies, Indian Institute of Science) ;
  • Prasad KV, Devi (Department of Ecology and Environment, Pondicherry University)
  • Received : 2018.02.15
  • Accepted : 2018.10.11
  • Published : 2018.10.31
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Abstract

Implementation of mitigation options on land is important for realisation of the goals of the Paris Agreement to stabilize temperature at $2^{\circ}C$. In India, the Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) targets include a forestry goal of creation of carbon sinks of 2.5 to 3 billion tonnes by 2030. There are however, multiple barriers to implementation of forestry mitigation options in India. They include environmental, social, financial, technological and institutional barriers. The barriers are varied not just across land categories but also for a land category depending on its regional location and distribution. In addition to these barriers is the impeding climate change that places at risk realisation of the mitigation potential as rising temperatures, drought, and fires associated with projected climate change may lead to forests becoming a weaker sink or a net carbon source before the end of the century.

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