NCCF

CORDIALLY COP14
INVITES YOU TO Theme
UNCCD COP14
“Restore Land,
Side Event Sustain Future”
On 7th September 2019
Venue: MET-06, India Expo Centre & Mart, Gr.
Noida (Delhi NCR), India Network for Certification
and
Time: 1130-1330 hrs Conservation of Forests

Globally 3 out of every 4 hectares of land has been

altered from the natural state according to risk
assessment report on land degradation by UNCCD.

UNCCD’s core agenda is reversing land degradation and

its outcomes while accelerating positive achievements
for people and for ecosystems with a view to achieving
Sustainable Development Goals.

India’s International Commitments

• Nationally Determined Contribution: additional 2.5 - 3 billion tons of
CO2eq. by 2030 through additional forest and tree cover
• Bonn Challenge: restoring 21 mha of degraded and deforested land by
2030
• SDGs: particularly no poverty, zero hunger, climate action, life on land
and combating desertification
• Landscape restoration will help India regain ecological integrity and
improve well-being of 700 million rural people

Desertification: Indian Situation

Some schemes and programmes for land
• India has around 70% of its total geographical area under restoration are
drylands. • Green India Mission (GIM) and National Afforestation Programme
• With about 30% of its land affected by land degradation, (NAP)
India has high stakes and stands strongly committed to • National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture (NMSA)
the Convention. • Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY)
• India with 2.5% of the global land area, supports world’s • Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY)
18% of human and 20% of livestock population. • Soil Health Card Scheme
• Total geographical area under land degradation is 96.40 • Soil Health Management Scheme
mha ( 29.32% of country’s area) • Per Drop More Crop
• India is committed to achieve Land Degradation • Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
Neutrality by 2030. (MGNREGA)
Certification of Natural
Resources to Combat
Desertification and
Restoring Landscapes
Certification of natural resources enhances the
sustainability of forests, agroforests, urban forests
and NWFPs, thereby reducing the rate of land
Areas of work
degradation, helping in combating desertification and
achieving Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN). Sustainability Policy
Standards Advocacy
Forest certification contributes to promoting SFM,
REDD+, SDGs, NDC commitments and meeting the
objectives of various international commitments
under the UNFCCC, UNCCD and UNCBD, etc.

NCCF has launched Forest Management Certification

Standard, which is country specific and globally
benchmarked and endorsed by the Programme for
the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC).

NCCF’s Trees Outside Forests Certification Standard is Natural Resource Conservation Multi Stakeholder Capacity Building
shortly being launched. Development of other & Management Engagement
sustainability certification standards and a Carbon
Registry-India are under preparation. Highlights of
these sustainability standards and CR-I will be
presented in the side event.

Expert speakers in panel

discussion will be covering the
following aspects
• Advantages of certification of natural
resources
• Certification to combat desertification
• NCCF’s FM Certification Standard
• NCCF’s ToF Standard
• NCCF’s other sustainability standards under
development (viz. NWFPs, Protected Areas
and wetland, Biomass and Biofuels, Quality
Planting material)
• Carbon registry-India
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Carbon Registry-India
Agroforestry for Arresting Desertification:
Grace us
Large Scale Case Studies from India with your presence at the side event during UNCCD CoP 14 and enrich its
• Plans, policies and scaling of REDD+ from proceedings through your comments/suggestions
Indonesia ??
• Bonn Challenge and India: Progress on Register for the UNCCD CoP 14 below:
Restoration Efforts across States and https://www.unccd.int/cop14-online-registration
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For confirmation of your participation or queries,
you may contact:

Varun Grover (+91-9999330646)

Tripta Tarunita (+91-9891811859)

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