Narendra Modi first proposed it in 2008. He sold it to world leaders as India’s green solution for the planet in 2023. However, the program to help corporates meet their environmental commitments is plagued by flaws and contradictions.
Gujarat had initially earmarked forest areas for Modi govt's Green Credit Programme. With approvals from the Union government, the forest parcels were withdrawn from the flagship greening scheme and unlocked for deforestation.
As chief minister of Gujarat, Narendra Modi first proposed the Green Credit scheme in 2008. As Prime Minister he sold it to world leaders as India’s green solution for the planet in 2023. However, the program to help corporates meet their environmental commitments was plagued by flaws and contradictions. The environment ministry attempted to bypass rules to bulldoze a business-friendly plantation scheme; it was stopped in its tracks by the law ministry and India's forestry council. The flawed scheme took root. Then, Gujarat state government broke even the flawed scheme further. For the Adani group. It had initially earmarked forest areas for Modi govt's Green Credit Programme. With approvals from the Union government, the forest parcels were withdrawn from the flagship greening scheme and unlocked for deforestation, it claimed, by the Adani group.
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