BONN CHALLENGE

June 18, 2019

Ahead of the COP-14, Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar launched a flagship project, part of a larger international initiative called the Bonn Challenge, to enhance India’s capacity for forest landscape restoration (FLR).

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The Bonn Challenge is a global effort to bring 150 million hectares of the world’s deforested and degraded land under restoration by 2020, and 350 million hectares by 2030.
The flagship project will be implemented during a pilot phase of three-and-a-half years in the five pilot states of Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Nagaland and Karnataka. This will eventually be scaled up across the country.
The project will aim to develop and adapt the best practices and monitoring protocols for the country, and build capacity within the five pilot States.
Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar also announced that India for the first time will host the 14th session of the Conference of Parties (COP-14) of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) in September.

Source : The Hindu