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Great Green Wall Initiative
January 23 , 2021
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- The Great Green Wall for Sahel and Sahara Initiative recently received 14 billion USD funds at
- the recent One Planet Summit for Biodiversity.
- The Great Green Wall initiative aims to transform the lives of 100 million Africans by growing
- 8,000 kilo metre long and fifteen kilo metre wide mosaic of trees, vegetation, grasslands, plants.
- It is an African-led initiative.
- It will contribute fifteen of the seventeen United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
- The initiative aims to sequester 250 million tonnes of carbon and create ten million green jobs.
- The project aims to restore 100 million hectares of degraded land by 2030.
- Chad, Burkina Faso, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Mali, Niger, Mauritania, Nigeria, Sudan, Senegal, Djibouti are the countries selected as intervention zones for this initiative.
- The main objective of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification is to reach Land neutrality by 2030.
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