The Green India Mission (GIM), also called the National Mission for a Green India, has completed a decade. The revised one was recently rolled out to last till 2030. The mission aimed to protect, restore, and enhance India’s forest cover and improve biodiversity, water resources, and ecosystems like mangroves and wetlands to absorb carbon and help address climate change. With adverse and extreme weather events like floods and high heat affecting most of India’s districts and studies showing that 80 per cent of the country’s population has been affected by climate change, the role and commitment of the central and state governments to green India become critical.

The mission is important for India’s international obligations........

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