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Rejuvenation of Degraded Land: 50 lakh hectares
August 29 , 2019
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- Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar announced that India has committed to rejuvenate 50 lakh hectares (5 million) of degraded land between 2021 and 2030.
- About 29% (about 96.4 million hectares) are considered degraded in India.
- In January 2019, India became part of the “Bonn Challenge”.
- Bonn Challenge is a global effort to bring 150 million hectares of the world’s deforested and degraded land into restoration by 2020, and 350 million hectares by 2030.
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