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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | UN meeting on desertification ends with vow to curb land degradation -Jacob Koshy

UN meeting on desertification ends with vow to curb land degradation -Jacob Koshy

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published Published on Sep 14, 2019   modified Modified on Sep 14, 2019
-The Hindu

United Nations-led Conference to Combat Desertification assures ‘neutrality’ by 2030.

New Delhi:
A two-week long United Nations-led Conference to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) ended with a commitment to achieve land degradation neutrality by 2030. Such neutrality is defined by the U.N. as ensuring that enough land is available across the world to ensure a sustainable future.

The Delhi Declaration, a consensus document, agreed upon by more than 100 countries “welcomed” the proposed adoption of a “voluntary” land degradation neutrality target by India, which has committed to restoring at least 26 million hectares of degraded land by 2030. The Declaration doesn’t detail commitments by other countries.

Almost 122 nations, including India, have made voluntary commitments in previous years to ensure that a certain percentage of their degraded land was restored. India had agreed, again on a voluntary basis, to restore 20 million hectares by 2020. Nearly 96 million hectares of land is deemed ‘degraded’ in India.

On August 14th, 2018, India claimed it had brought an area of 9.8 million hectares under restoration since 2011. Of the 9.8 million hectares, 94.4% was contributed by government agencies, while NGOs and private companies contributed 3.6% and 2% respectively.

Countries will address insecurity of land tenure, promote land restoration to reduce land-related carbon emissions and mobilise innovative sources of finance from public and private sources, the UN said in a statement.

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The Hindu, 14 September, 2019, https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/energy-and-environment/un-meeting-on-desertification-ends-with-vow-to-curb-land-degradation/article29412699.ece?homepage=true


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