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 ...

In a significant interim ruling on Monday, a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court headed by the Chief Justice asked the Centre to go back to the definition of ‘forest’ as given in its landmark 1996 ...

A SC interim order provides an opportunity to revisit the definition to balance India’s economic interests and infrastructure needs with sustainable goals A buzz has erupted across the country once ...

The FAO lumps non-oil palm tree plantations into its definition of forest cover when conducting its Global Forest Resource Assessments. The assessments analyze land cover change in countries around ...

The health of the world's forests — and their capacity to lock away carbon — could be jeopardized by logging if the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) definition of a ...

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 ...