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Here is a question worth sitting with for a second. If a company plants ten thousand trees and eight thousand die within two years, did anything actually get achieved? For a long time, the honest answer in most sustainability reports was yes, because the number that got celebrated was the planting figure, not the survival figure.     That gap between activity and outcome has become impossible to ignore. Governments are rewriting rules, investors are asking sharper questions, and communities living near degraded land want actual forests back, not photo opportunities. Businesses still measuring success by sapling counts risk pouring money into projects that look good in a press release and deliver almost nothing ecologically.     This article walks through why environmental stewardship is shifting decisively toward outcome-based environmental management, what that means for India's evolving Green Credit Programme, an...