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EnviStats India 2024: Environment Accounts
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- The Ministry of Statistics (MoSPI) has compiled and released the 7th consecutive issue of the publication “EnviStats India 2024: Environment Accounts”.
- Installed capacity of solar energy in India has increased by more than 25 times from 2.82 GW in March 2014 to 73.32 GW in December 2023.
- India is one of the world’s 17 mega diverse nations with around 8% of the world’s documented species.
- India hosts 4 of the 36 globally recognised biodiversity hotspots.
- There has been around 72% increase in the number and around 16% increase in area for the Total Protected Area during the period 2000 to 2023.
- The coverage of Mangroves, which is an important sub ecosystem of the ocean ecosystem, has increased around 8% over the years 2013 to 2021.
- Most of the IUCN Red List species in India are under the ‘Least Concern’ category.
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