- Business Today
Indian government introduces draft for Green Credits, to reward environmental initiatives
To create a mass movement around environmental positive actions and realise the vision of "Mission LiFE" through pro-planet-people and entities to achieve India’s net zero goal of 2070, the Indian government is coming up with Green Credits. The Green Credits Programme is designed to incentivise voluntary environmental actions undertaken by individuals, private sectors, small scale industries, cooperatives, forestry enterprises and farmer-produce organisations for their environmental actions. The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has also notified the draft ‘Green Credit Programme (GCP)’ implementation rules 2023.