<span style="color: #222222;">The total tree and forest cover in the country has increased by 5,188 square kilometres in the last two years and it has covered around 25 per cent of the geographical area of the country.<br />'' <br />'' Releasing the India State of Forest Report 2019 in New Delhi today, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said, India is among the few countries where the forest and tree covers have increased.<br />'' <br />'' As per the report, Karnataka tops the list of states followed by Andhra Pradesh and Kerala in terms of increase in forest cover.<br />'' <br />'' The aim of the Paris Agreement is to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change by keeping global temperature rise this century well below two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.<br />'' <br />''<br />''It also asks countries to work to achieve a levelling-off of global greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible and to become carbon neutral by the second half of this century.</span><br />