CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -At COP 14, Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi announced that “India would raise its ambition of the total area that would be restored from its land degradation status, from twenty-one million hectares to twenty-six million hectares between now and 2030”.

Detailed explanation-3: -The fourteenth session of the Conference of Parties (COP 14) to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) was held from 2 to 13 September 2019 in New Delhi, India.

Detailed explanation-4: -When is COP 15 taking place? The fifteenth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP15) of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) will take place from 9 to 20 May 2022 in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.