Doubts have been raised by a UN body over India’s claims that its forest cover has been increasing steadily for years.

Questions have been raised by experts of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change at a time when future claims of increase and enrichment of India’s forest cover could lead to potentially millions of dollars of easy income annually once the Paris Agreement is implemented. The global agreement envisions setting up a global mechanism for countries to trade in the greenhouse gas emissions avoided by either growing more forests, enriching existing ones or ...