Worth more standing: India’s forests are a $2.5-trillion asset we keep forgetting to count | India News
Picture a bank vault the size of Madhya Pradesh. Inside it sits not gold bullion or govt bonds, but clean water, breathable air, pollination services, flood barriers, carbon blocks, and medicinal plants — a portfolio of natural assets worth roughly $2.5 trillion every single year. Now imagine that this vault does not appear on any…