The weak definition of what constitutes forest under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) puts the effectiveness of a proposed mechanism for reducing emissions from ...

India, Sept. 23 -- The Supreme Court's recent directive to states and union territories to define "forest" has once again pushed this debate into the national spotlight. How India defines a forest ...

The Haryana government’s decision to go by the ‘dictionary meaning’ of forests has thrown open the doors to wide-ranging debates. On March 4, the Supreme Court directed all states and union ...

The Supreme Court on Monday issued an interim order that has effectively suspended what experts and activists said were dilution of environmental protections for forests in a law enacted by the ...