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Pradeep Kumar

18/06/21 09:00 AM IST

Desertification and Land Degradation Atlas of India

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Minister of State for Environment, Forest, and Climate Change called for generating awareness towards preventing and restoring land degradation for healthier and sustainable ecosystems and the latest version of “Desertification and Land Degradation Atlas of India has been released.

Aim

It aims to generate large-scale awareness towards understanding the key role of land in all environmental and economic concerns, that the world, as well as India, is facing now-a-days.

Highlights
  • The Atlas provides state-wise area of degraded lands for the time frame 2018-19.
  • It also provides the change analysis for the duration of 15 years, from 2003-05 to 2018-19.
  • The salient findings of this Atlas are not only useful as a ready reference but, will also be helpful in strengthening the envisaged National Action Plan for achieving land restoration targets by providing important baseline and temporal data and technical inputs.
India's stand on desertification
  • India hosted the 14th session of the Conference of Parties (COP 14) of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) in September 2019.
  • India is striving towards achieving the national commitments of Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) and restoration of 26 Million ha of degraded land by 2030 which focus on sustainable and optimum utilization of land resources.
  • India has been at the forefront of bringing the issue of land degradation to the core of relevant international alliances for the protection and conservation of the environment.
  • The government of India has adopted a collective approach for making progress towards achieving the national commitments related to land restoration.
Source: PIB

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