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2023

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which year is set as target year to bring 150 million hectares of the world’s degraded and deforested land under restoration as per Bonn Challenge?
A
2020
B
2025
C
2030
D
2040
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Bonn Challenge is a global effort to restore 150 million hectares of degraded and deforested land by 2020, and 350 million hectares by 2030. The initiative was launched in 2011 by Germany and IUCN, and was later endorsed and extended by the UN Climate Summit in 2014.

Detailed explanation-2: -Ans. India’s Bonn Challenge pledge was to bring 13 million hectares of degraded land into restoration by 2020 and 8 million hectares by 2030.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Bonn Challenge is a global goal to bring 150 million hectares of degraded and deforested landscapes into restoration by 2020 and 350 million hectares by 2030.

Detailed explanation-4: -The answer is d. The total degraded land in our country is 130 million hectares. India became part of the “Bonn Challenge”, a global effort to bring 150 million hectares of the world’s deforested and degraded land into restoration by 2020, and 350 million hectares by 2030.

Detailed explanation-5: -Launched by the Government of Germany and IUCN in 2011, the Challenge surpassed the 150-million-hectare milestone for pledges in 2017.

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