Union Minister for Environment, Forests and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav on Tuesday mentioned that the Covid-19 pandemic has “compounded the challenge of fighting global warming” as financial pressures have delayed progress of local weather motion around the globe.
Addressing the United Nation’s Conference to Combat Desertification Conference of Parties at its fifteenth session in Cote d’Ivoire, Yadav, additionally the COP president, mentioned India has made vital progress in its dedication to revive 26 million hectares of degraded land by 2030, including that main initiatives have been launched and present applications strengthened in assembly Land Degradation Neutrality targets. “Over 229 million Soil Health Cards have been issued to farmers between 2015 and 2019 and this program has led to a decline of 8-10% in the use of chemical fertilizers and also raised productivity by 5-6%.”, he mentioned.
He added that following the worldwide name for the submission of nominations for World Restoration Flagships, India endorsed six restoration flagships that concentrate on the restoration of 12.5 million hectares of degraded land.
“India’s rural livelihood programs have an underlying ethos of natural resource conservation and restoration. In recovering from the pandemic, we have used our livelihood programs extensively to work towards land restoration. Building forward better and greener communities, especially for vulnerable groups, will have to be at the heart of the restoration agenda”, he added.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
