Joining Porbandar in Gujarat, the birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi, and Rajghat in Delhi, his final resting place, the green wall will be a continuous stretch of green areas — some natural forests ...

The project will see a 4,722-mile green wall that will aim to restore 100 million hectares of degraded land, capture around 250 million tonnes of carbon by 2030, and create roughly 10 million jobs.

About two decades ago, African nations launched an audacious plan: a 7,700km “Great Green Wall” to hold back the Sahara Desert’s southward march. Yet years passed and progress was stalled ...