Over 100 Environment, Forest Rights Groups Write to MoEFCC, Seek Roll-Back of Green Credit Rules

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Over 100 Environment, Forest Rights Groups Write to MoEFCC, Seek Roll-Back of Green Credit Rules

New Delhi: Over a hundred environment and human rights organisations, lawyers and individuals have written to the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, expressing concerns and demanding a roll-back of the Green Credit rules and the methodology of it, as per a notification dated February 24, 2023. According to the letter, the methodology notified for Green Credit “in effect provides incentive for forest diversion activities through …