Mission LiFE and the Green India Mission: Where Company Plantations Fit

India has set national goals for forests and climate, and companies are increasingly asked how their sustainability work contributes. Two national programmes come up most often: Mission LiFE and the Green India Mission. This guide explains both and how a company's plantation programme can align with them.

Mission LiFE: lifestyles for the environment

• Launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in October 2022, with the UN Secretary-General.
• Aims to turn environmental protection into a mass movement of individual action, a "pro-planet people" approach.
• Promotes everyday choices across themes such as saving energy and water, reducing waste and single-use plastic, sustainable food systems and healthy lifestyles.
• Campaigns such as Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam are linked to it.

For companies, LiFE fits most naturally with employee engagement: office energy and water habits, waste reduction, and participation in tree planting that employees can see and follow.

The Green India Mission

• One of the eight national missions under India's National Action Plan on Climate Change.
• Aims to protect, restore and enhance India's forest and tree cover, and to respond to climate change.
• Its goals include increasing forest and tree cover on 5 million hectares and improving the quality of forest cover on another 5 million hectares.
• It supports India's commitment under the Paris Agreement to create an additional carbon sink of 2.5 to 3 billion tonnes of CO2 equivalent through forest and tree cover by 2030.

The revised roadmap (June 2025)

In June 2025 the government released a revised roadmap that focuses restoration on ecologically sensitive landscapes:

• the Aravalli range, linked to the Aravalli Green Wall project against desertification;
• the Western Ghats;
• the Himalayas;
• mangroves along the coasts.

How company plantations can align

Keep claims accurate

• Say you support or align with national goals; do not claim your trees as part of government totals unless a programme formally counts them.
• Report what survives, with locations and photographs, rather than saplings planted.
• Keep plantation separate from your own emission figures; see Green credits vs carbon credits vs CSR vs BRSR.

Plan an aligned programme

We plan plantation programmes around landscape, species and survival, and report every tree with geo-tags. See how we support government priorities or plan a programme with our team.

Sources: MoEFCC · Revised Green India Mission (summary) · Mission LiFE. Last updated: October 2026. Rules change; check the latest notification before you rely on any detail.

Further reading: Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam: How Companies, Schools and RWAs Can Take Part · Green Credit Programme 2026: How Tree Plantation Green Credits Work