India’s forests, soil can store additional 7 billion tonnes of carbon

This puts India among the top 10 countries with additional carbon storage capacity.
Land-based carbon storage is a part of nature-based solutions to the climate crisis, one of the focus areas at the 26th Conference of Parties (CoP26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
This storage can further be expanded through reforestation, improving natural forest stewardship and storage benefit through conserving forests.
Tropics show the most promise, holding 68 per cent of additional carbon-storing potential as a result of carbon-rich forest ecosystems.
Impact of climate change on the storage capacity of forests.
Under a high emissions scenario, there might be an average increase of 17 per cent additional potential for land carbon storage globally, but a decrease of roughly 12 per cent in the tropics.