Govt goals to revive 26 million hectares of forest land by 2030
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CHENNAI: India has set an bold goal to revive 26 million hectares of forest land and create 2.5-3 billion tonnes of extra carbon sinks, mentioned Bivash Ranjan, extra director normal of forests (ADGF), Union Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, on the eve of the fourth assembly of the G20 Environment and Climate Sustainability Working Group in Chennai.
‘Land degradation, ecosystem restoration, biodiversity and water resources’ is certainly one of three thematic priorities of the fourth working group, which was underway on Tuesday and attended by a file variety of delegates. Its ministerial assembly scheduled on July 28 shall be attended by 225 delegates.
Replying to a query from The New Indian Express, Bivash Ranjan mentioned 27 per cent of India’s forest space is impacted by wild forest fires and the pure regeneration was not taking place. Also, India has reclaimed 38 per cent of forest space misplaced to mining and the goal was to reclaim the remaining 62 per cent.
“These degraded areas are originally biodiversity-rich landscapes. We have to restore and take care of them. The G20 Global Land Initiative (GLI) was launched during the Saudi presidency and the ambition of this initiative was to prevent, halt and reverse land degradation and reduce degraded land by 50 per cent by 2040. GLI will monitor whether the land is restored or not. However, India voluntarily has created structural and functional tools to monitor the restoration and institutes like Indian Institute of Forest Management to do the monitoring and submit a report,” Bivash mentioned.
He mentioned this G20 working group assembly was the primary after the adoption of the historic Kunming Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. India by committing to revive 26 million hectares by 2030 is attaining two targets: growing the biodiversity and fulfilling the targets set within the Global Biodiversity Framework.
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The fourth ECSWG assembly may even see the launch of ‘Resource Efficiency Circular Economy Industry Coalition’ by Bhupender Yadav, Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, on July 27, in response to Naresh Pal Gangwar, extra secretary to the ministry.
CHENNAI: India has set an bold goal to revive 26 million hectares of forest land and create 2.5-3 billion tonnes of extra carbon sinks, mentioned Bivash Ranjan, extra director normal of forests (ADGF), Union Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, on the eve of the fourth assembly of the G20 Environment and Climate Sustainability Working Group in Chennai.
‘Land degradation, ecosystem restoration, biodiversity and water resources’ is certainly one of three thematic priorities of the fourth working group, which was underway on Tuesday and attended by a file variety of delegates. Its ministerial assembly scheduled on July 28 shall be attended by 225 delegates.
Replying to a query from The New Indian Express, Bivash Ranjan mentioned 27 per cent of India’s forest space is impacted by wild forest fires and the pure regeneration was not taking place. Also, India has reclaimed 38 per cent of forest space misplaced to mining and the goal was to reclaim the remaining 62 per cent.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
“These degraded areas are originally biodiversity-rich landscapes. We have to restore and take care of them. The G20 Global Land Initiative (GLI) was launched during the Saudi presidency and the ambition of this initiative was to prevent, halt and reverse land degradation and reduce degraded land by 50 per cent by 2040. GLI will monitor whether the land is restored or not. However, India voluntarily has created structural and functional tools to monitor the restoration and institutes like Indian Institute of Forest Management to do the monitoring and submit a report,” Bivash mentioned.
He mentioned this G20 working group assembly was the primary after the adoption of the historic Kunming Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. India by committing to revive 26 million hectares by 2030 is attaining two targets: growing the biodiversity and fulfilling the targets set within the Global Biodiversity Framework.
Environment coverage
The fourth ECSWG assembly may even see the launch of ‘Resource Efficiency Circular Economy Industry Coalition’ by Bhupender Yadav, Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, on July 27, in response to Naresh Pal Gangwar, extra secretary to the ministry.
