The 14th CoP to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), hosted by India, adopted that land degradation is largely responsible for climate change or global warming. Examine (200 Words)
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KEY POINTS
· The 14th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), hosted by India, adopted the ‘New Delhi Declaration’, land degradation is largely responsible for climate change or global warming.
· Now, there’s a cause-and-effect relationship between ‘climate change’ and ‘land degradation’. For satisfying the present-day life-style of the people, a large number of different kinds of items needs to be produced.
· The requirement for huge tracts of land for these activities led to large-scale de-forestation, especially owing to the industrialised West.
· Now, the poorer countries of the East are also destroying their forests, though they are doing so to fight their abject poverty.
· In short, deforestation, which in itself raises carbon emissions by 25 per cent, along with all human activities pursued on the land, is the real cause of climate change in the form of extreme weather conditions like intense and untimely rains, floods, soil erosion, and high temperatures (the 2015-19 period is considered the hottest ever).
Mitigation strategy
· Restore at least 150 million hectares of degraded land the world over by 2030 so as to increase the Earth’s capacity to absorb two giga tonnes of carbon di-oxide.
· By investing $1 in land restoration, a return of $10 can be expected with prudent farm practices and water management. India has already increased its land restoration target to 26 million hectares from 21 mha committed earlier in its NDCs.
· Stop building infrastructure on danger zones such as flood plains or at the foot of unstable hills and build climate-resilient houses in big cities/towns. And, completely avoiding civic structures not geared to cope with sudden demands of extreme climate events.
· Recognise the vital role of women in land restoration and assure land tenure security to locals. Also incorporate indigenous knowledge for land restoration.
Chinna 5 years
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Manojkumar B 5 years
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Shawn Gabriel 5 years
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