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Forest cover has increased since 1997, says report [1]

Days ahead of the climate change summit in Copenhagen, where India will demand incentives for increasing forest cover, New Delhi on Monday came up with a comprehensive report that showed that its forest cover continued to grow and that it had the potential to become the largest carbon sink in the world.

Publication Date: 
01/12/2009
Indian Express (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Forests [3], Forest Conservation [4], Climate Change [5], Carbon Sinks [6], Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF) [7], India [8]
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