Corporate Responsibility for Environment Protection (CREP) and initiatives by IPMA
The IPMA member mills have invested over Rs.3,000 crore (USD 0.71 billion) to assimilate cleaner technologies in adherence to Charter of Corporate Responsibility for Environment Protection (CREP) put in force by the Ministry of Environment & Forests, Govt. of India.
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CREP and Initiatives taken by Indian Paper Manufacturers Association
Cost Benefit Analysis on �Public Private Partnership in Re-Greening Of Degraded Revenue/Private/Forestlands":An independent study by a team of senior researchers drawn from University of Southern California, USA; Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad; Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal; CREATE and World Bank has shown that a public-private partnership that entails wood-based industry getting access to a fraction of degraded land could help generate rural employment, increase green cover and make industry competitive globally. The analysis found that if 1.2 million hectares of degraded land is leased out to the industry, the total benefit works out to be well above Rs 10,500 crore per year.
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