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Detailed explanation-1: -The fourteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD COP 14) is scheduled to take place from 2-13 September 2019, at the India Expo Center and Mart in New Delhi, India.

Detailed explanation-2: -India being the global host for COP 14 has taken over the COP Presidency from China for the next two years till 2021. India is among the select few countries to have hosted the COP of all three Rio conventions on climate change, biodiversity and land.

Detailed explanation-3: -COP 14. The fourteenth session of the Conference of the Parties will take place from 2 to 13 September 2019 at the India Expo Center and Mart, in New Delhi, India.

Detailed explanation-4: -Why in News? Recently, the Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change addressed the fifteenth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP15)of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) in Cote d’Ivoire (Western Africa).