Green Credit Scheme in India Now And French Government Pays To Stop Discarding Clothes And Shoes
July 18, 2023
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To buttress the efforts for sustainability and environment protection, even further, India’s environment ministry has come up with a slew of rewards (in the form of incentives) for lone persons, corporations and industries.
Such entities can “generate credits” as they accomplish tasks targeted towards benefitting the environment.
But experts frown at the absence of any regulatory mechanism and fear that the scheme would simply be useless and a redundant counting.
The Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change declared the draft on June 27, which is titled “Green Credit Program Implementation Rules”.
This scheme would credit awards for accomplishing certain “environmental interventions”, eight in number.
The draft pins down, “These credits can then be “made available for trading on a domestic market platform.”
India invents this policy to limit energy consumption and boost carbon credit trading in the country’s domestic carbon market.
But GCP (Green Credit Program) doesn’t have a standard unit of measurement in place which would gauge and evaluate the benefits garnered from a range of activities such as planting a tree and helping to create a sustainable setting.
The GCP will function like a market force but may overrun the carbon market if the green credit also ensures lowered carbon emissions, as the power of the scheme draft.
Avantika Goswami, who is a programme coordinator for Climate Change at the Centre For Sciences and Environment, revealed to the media,” Even tracking carbon credits, which focuses on just one gas, is a complex exercise that is challenging to regulate. Extending that same method to other ecosystems and pollution areas creates a strong risk of greenwashing,”
She went on to add, “It also raises serious questions about how rigorous the monitoring will be and who should take responsibility for pollution reduction and biodiversity savings.”
Meanwhile, Tripti Mishra a professor at Interdisciplinary Programme In Climate Studies at IIT (Bombay) says,” I believe any programme, regardless mandatory or voluntary, needs robust process, involving technical support, good measurement tools and more importantly proper monitoring at the source level. Since green credit or for that matter carbon market are new programmes for Indian companies, these would work well with process support involving awareness to monitoring.”
The central objective of the effort is to spread the message favouring “Lifestyle for Environment Movement (LIFE)“ and the government simply pushes the idea of sustainable living,
This must be remembered here that the LiFE concept slipped into the limelight at COP27 at Sharm Al Shaikh where it appeared in the cover decision text as the most significant factor for climate action globally.
This is open to the general public and anyone can partake. For instance, individuals, cooperatives, Farmer Producer Organizations (FPO), forestry and sustainable agriculture enterprises, private sectors and certain other types of corporations.
The activities like planting trees, harvesting and water saving, wastewater treatment, agro practices that are natural and regenerative, conserving and restoring mangroves, limiting air pollution and so forth.
Furthermore, even those who get the Eco Mark label for manufacturing and building construction are also included, such as from the Bureau of Indian Standards.
Mr Narassimhan hailed the move, “Overall, this is a great initiative. But it will be challenging to implement and requires the establishment of a scientific committee with activity-specific experts, who can frame the requirements for receiving green credits,” said Easwaran J. Narasimhan, an associate professor at the Centre for Policy Research (CPR), a Delhi based think tank. “The administrator must ensure that every credit generated under different categories are not ‘hot-air credits’ (unsubstantial or lacking real value) and are additional to what is already happening anyway.”
The answer is Indian Council of Forestry Research And Education (ICFRE) which is reputed for research and adding capacity, is appointed to overlook the implementation of GCP.
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It will award credits and maintain such registrations. To guide and determine the guidelines, the ICFRE, a steering committee, is appointed, which will also manage its smooth functioning.
France Encourages Shoes And Clothing Repair To Cut Down On Waste :
The country has declared a bonus for those opting for repairing their shoes and clothing and would decline to discard them easily. The decision will come into effect from October onwards.
There accumulates around 700,000 tonnes of discards as shoes and clothes which French people put off from regular use every year and landfills claim a lion’s share of it.
But as a remedy, the government has declared a scheme under which a person can claim up to 7 euros for a shoe repair and while for sending apparel for mending, they can easily set 10 to 25 euros demand.
With the noble idea of promoting livelihoods centring clean energy, Apple Inc collaborates with Acumen and together they would push social interests ahead.
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As for Acumen, this is a non-profit organization operational on a global level and works hard for poverty alleviation and empowers sustainable efforts, its leaders and any such ideas.
Acumen will send in veterans to script the schedule and planning of a programme for a 12-week duration titled “Energy For Livelihoods”.
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Feeling the dire need for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Apple extends a helping hand to NGOs for boosting clean energy efforts in India.
The accelerator would enable social enterprises to redesign their organizations to help those facing acute poverty while conserving the environment at the same time.
Apple Inc seeks apps from organizations which are unrelenting towards innovations that centre around sustainable energy.
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They will launch the programme in September and the enterprises interested in this can apply by July 24th.
Sarah Chaudhary who heads Environment and Supply Chain Innovations as VP shares, “Apple is committed to helping ensure everyone can share in the benefits of a greener economy.” Chandler further expressed, “We’re demonstrating the transformative potential of clean energy in everything we do, and excited to support social innovators who share that goal.”
From Acumen’s side, Mahesh Yagnaraman, who is its director for India, proclaims, “For over 20 years, Acumen has invested in early-stage social enterprises addressing problems of poverty in India, and some of our most innovative recent investments have been at the intersection of energy access and livelihoods.”
He feels thrilled about such a collaboration with Apple and hopes to develop social units which would act like stepping stones in transforming the livelihoods on the back of sustainable energy.
What will the participants find in the Program?
Apple declares that the participants will meet a wide panel of mentors, facilitators and field experts.
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Later on, the participants will be absorbed into the global community headed by Acumen Academy and The Foundry.
Further, they will also be entitled to technical assistance and the early-stage investment Pioneer Energy Investment Initiative (PEII+) which Acumen directs.
Apple’s Clarification On Partnership: Environment News updates in India:
Apple has stated that the partnership includes Frank Water too to empower efforts aimed at easy availability of safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene.
The big whale of technology pool also seeks association with the Applied Environmental Research Foundation (AERF) and looks to proliferate efforts to sustain mangroves which are aplenty on the west coast of the country.
It appears clear that Apple Inc pursues lofty targets and is inclined to achieve them by 2030 and ensures that every product to be developed would be devoid of carbon.
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This effort has already swelled as 250 manufacturers are now stakeholders in this scheme and 12 are from India.
Interestingly, it is reported that India has already attained the zero waste distinction at the final assembly stage.
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Save this, Apple Inc has vowed a few pledges too by keeping 2025 in sight which are :
Have its batteries use recycled cobalt.
Uncommon earth elements in all magnets would be recycled.
Gold plating would be the recycled source.
Printed circuit boards would have recycled tin.
Finally, Apple Inc tends to spread the spirit of the Restore Fund meant for carbon removal methods which are of high quality and to dampen the use of carbon.
Well dear reader, how far will such efforts unlock success, we will see together, please turn to our website for more environment news updates in India.
