NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said India is on course to reach its national devotion of’property degradation neutrality’ while the nation is working towards assigning 26 million hectares of degraded land to fulfill its target by 2030.
“This could lead to India’s dedication to attain another carbon flow of 2.5 to 3 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equal,” he said while addressing the UN’High-Level Dialogue on Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought’ in his capacity as the president of the 14th session of the Conference of Parties (COP14) of United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification.
Underlining the nation’s album on afforestation, he stated,”In India, within the previous ten decades, approximately 3 million hectares of forest cover was added.
This has improved the united forest cover to nearly one-fourth of the nation’s total area.” Calling for decrease of the stress on its own resources through concerted efforts as”humanity’s collective accountability”, PM Modi stated,”Land degradation presents a unique challenge to the developing world.
Now a’Centre of Excellence’ has been established in India to encourage a scientific approach to land degradation difficulties.”