The competition for land between renewable enegry installations and forest cover may invariably favour the former because it is backed by large industrial and economic interests.
The Great Green Wall is a reforestation initiative that aims to grow an 8,000km belt of trees, vegetation and fertile land across the degraded Sahel region.
About 70% of Indonesia’s mangrove forests have been damaged by aquaculture. But nature-based solutions can help produce food in a more sustainable manner.
Many countries seem to assume that commercial tree plantations or planting trees amidst crops is enough. Yet only natural forests trap ample quantities of CO2.
Maha ARC was set up to restructure distressed institutions linked to state government, but officials said the company would have been most useful for reconstructing and selling off sick cooperatives.
At defence conclave, Air Chief Marshal A.P. Singh says conflict needs all kinds of weapons, not just the long-range ones, as a paracetamol cannot cure all ailments.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
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