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How paying countries for not cutting down trees reduces deforestation In 2009, Norway pledged $250 million if Guyana limited its annual deforestation rate to 0.056% between the years 2010 and 2015 Current Affairs :At the point when Norway chose 10 years back to pay Guyana, a little wilderness shrouded nation in South America, to decrease its pace of deforestation, nobody was certain how much impact the move would have. Presently they realize it works, as per an examination distributed Monday in the United States. This sort of universal program – cash for woodlands – has showed up in various structures since 2000, and is commonly known by the abbreviation REDD+, representing Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation. Since woodlands are carbon sinks, inferable from the procedure of photosynthesis, chopping down a tree is what might be compared to emanating destructive ozone depleting substances. Nowadays, because of satellite imaging, it is conceiva...

Mehul Choksi will be brought back to India to face the law: Rajnath Government sources said India continues to pursue Choksi’s return with the government of Antigua through diplomatic and legal channels Home Minister Rajnath Singh Monday attested that fleeing diamantaire Mehul Choksi won’t be saved and will be taken back to India to confront the law. Singh, who established the framework stone for a Kendriya Vidyalaya at a CISF camp, said this in light of an inquiry regarding Choksi surrendering his Indian Passport to the High Commission in Guyana. The precious stone gem specialist had taken citizenship of Antigua and Barbuda after his name sprung up in the $2 billion extortion at a Mumbai-based part of the  PNB alongside his nephew and agent Nirav Modi. “We have brought the Fugitive Economic Offenders Act and there is a procedure under that law (to check misrepresentation cases). He (Choksi) will be conveyed to India without a doubt. Nobody will be saved. Move wil...