Desertification and Land Degradation Atlas of India
GS PAPER III: Science and Technology- developments and their applications and effects in everyday life.
Context: Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, called for generating awareness towards preventing and restoring land degradation for healthier and sustainable ecosystems.
Desertification and Land Degradation Atlas of India 2020
- It has been published by Space Application Centre, ISRO, Ahmedabad.
- The Atlas provides state wise area of degraded lands for the time frame 2018-19.
- It also provides the change analysis for the duration of 15 years, from 2003-05 to 2018-19.
- Salient findings of this Atlas are useful as a ready reference and will also be helpful in strengthening the envisaged National Action Plan for achieving land restoration targets by providing important baseline and temporal data and technical inputs.
India and UNCCD
- India hosted the 14th session of Conference of Parties (COP 14) of United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) in September 2019.
- India is striving towards achieving the national commitments of Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) and restoration of 26 Million ha of degraded land by 2030, which focus on sustainable and optimum utilisation of land resources.
- India has been at the forefront of bringing the issue of land degradation to the core of relevant international alliances for protection and conservation of environment.
- The government of India has adopted collective approach for making progress towards achieving the national commitments related to land restoration.
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