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BRICS+ agriculture beyond borders: Trade and resilience for a food-secure worldWith India’s leadership and BRICS+ cooperation, agriculture can become not only a source of food, but a foundation for resilience, prosperi...- Mining turns India's heat-shield hills to dustDizzyingly deep pits from large-scale mining scar India's ancient Aravalli mountains, threatening the future of a forested buffer that New ...
- Aravalli Green Wall: Centre targets restoring degraded ecosystems over 8 lakh ha in first phaseThe Centre is set to restore over eight lakh hectares of reserved forest in the first phase of the Aravalli Green Wall project, costing Rs ...
- Climate crisis threatens to exploit and exacerbate division and polarisation: WHO chief Ghebreyesus
- Climate crisis threatens to exploit and exacerbate division and polarisation: WHO Chief GhebreyesusWHO Director-General highlighted the escalating climate crisis, emphasizing its potential to worsen global divisions. He stressed the urgen...
- Finance key to achieving UNCCD goals, says IndiaIndia's Environment Minister highlighted the importance of financing for achieving UNCCD goals at a UN conference in Saudi Arabia. India ha...
- India underlines efforts on land restoration, drought resilience at CoP16Union Minister Bhupender Yadav outlines India's efforts to address land degradation and desertification at CoP16 in Riyadh. He highlights I...
- Restoring land is critical for India’s economy and food security: Osama Faqeeha, UNCCD’s COP16 advisorIndia’s agricultural crisis from land degradation needs swift action, stresses COP16 Presidency Advisor Osama Faqeeha.
- 'You make a great ambassador.' Biocon boss Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw heaps praise on Grammy-winning composer Ricky Kej following UN honourRicky Kej, the three-time Grammy Award-winning composer, has been awarded the UN Goodwill Ambassador plaque in recognition of his environme...
- Government plans 1,400km long 'Great Green Wall’ of IndiaThe project intends to counter climate change and desertification and is inspired by Africa's “Great Green Wall” from Dakar to Djibouti.
- Fight against climate change: 200 nations pledge to focus on land-based solutionsCountries have pledged to encourage the development of community-driven transformative projects and programmes, as well as focus on efforts...
- COP14: India identifies 130 wetlands for priority restorationThe highest number of such identified wetlands are in Uttar Pradesh (16) followed by Madhya Pradesh (13), Jammu & Kashmir (12), Gujarat (8)...
- Pakistan skips UN summit in India on restoring landDesignated seats of two Pakistani representatives remained vacant during the plenary on inaugural day.
- World comes together to slow down land degradation and desertificationThe fortnight long meeting will focus on practical measures to recover degraded land areas, critical gaps in land management and planning.
- India to restore 50 lakh hectare of degraded land by 2030: JavadekarIndia is hosting the Conference of Parties (COP) 14 of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) from September 2-13.
- India to host UN conference on combating desertification
- Government committed to saving land from getting degraded: Prakash Javadekar"India will lead by example and cooperate with the world. We will make all necessary contributions in the matter," Javadekar said.
- Desertification, land degradation, drought cost India 2.54% of its GDP: StudyDesertification, Land Degradation and Drought (DLDD) cost India about 2.54 per cent of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2014-15, a new s...
- Government working to make India land degradation neutral by 2023For this to happen, all critical stakeholders— ministries of environment, agriculture, water resources and land resources— have to work tog...
- India to be 'land degradation neutral' by 2030: Prakash JavadekarJavadekar said that the objective of land degradation neutrality is to maintain or improve the condition of land resources via sustainable ...
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