A recently released State of Forest Report 2019, revealed that the Northeast has the biggest carbon stock of the country accounting for 28% of India’s total estimated carbon stock of 7,124 million tonnes.
Arunachal Pradesh, whose 60 percent land is covered by forests, has the highest carbon stock of 1051 million tonnes in the country. The Northeastern state is followed by Madhya Pradesh (588.73 million tonnes), Chhattisgarh (480.25 million tonnes) and Maharashtra (440.51 million tonnes).
Forest carbon stock is the amount of carbon that has been sequestered from the atmosphere and is now stored within the forest ecosystem mainly within living biomass and soil, and to a lesser extent also in deadwood and litter.