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India’s forests could store nearly twice as much carbon by the end of this century as they do now if current greenhouse gas emission trends continue, according to a new modelling study published this week in the journal Environmental Research: Climate.
The findings, involving researchers from multiple Indian institutes, present a granular forecast of how climate change will reshape the country’s forest carbon stocks. Significantly, they diverge in important ways from official estimates compiled by the Forest Survey of India (FSI) – the official source of tree and forest cover data in India.
Published – April 21, 2026 05:41 am IST