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Asia Pacific Regional Workshop of UNCCD
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- The Asia Pacific Regional Workshop of United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) was held in New Delhi.
- It was jointly hosted by Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) and UNCCD.
- The 4-day workshop aimed at building capacity of Asia-Pacific Region to monitor and report on land degradation.
- The workshop provided UNCCD member countries platform to submit their national report in time and in particular for Target 15.3 on Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN).
- The participants were trained in use of state-of-the-art tool called ‘Trends Earth’ developed by Conservation International, an NGO for combating land degradation.
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)
- UNCCD was adopted in 1994 and entered into force 1996. It is only legally binding international agreement to address problem of desertification and other land issues.
- India’s Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) is the nodal Ministry for this Convention, as well as other two Rio Conventions
- Those are United Nations Framework Convention to Combat Climate Change (UNFCC) and Convention on Biological Diversity,
- These two conventions have their genesis in Earth Summit in 1992 in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.
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