Land degradation, extending over 96 million hectares, is a primary ecological issue for India that has resulted in catastrophic biodiversity loss and exacerbated extreme weather occurrences. One of the major sources of land degradation is large-scale coal mining to realize country's expanding energy demands. By 2050 climate change and land degradation, will result in billions of dollars of loss for India.
Given the prospect of challenging but attainable targets, this case study examines India's readiness and the ramifications of these targets on land degradation reduction.
It proposes embedding diverse knowledge systems, including indigenous knowledge systems and capabilities, by formulating policies that incentivize environmental restoration, people-centric, climate sensitive strategies and convergence between different government departments as well as schemes, and mainstreaming of systems thinking as a social transformation approach for achieving coupled climate and Land Degradation Neutrality targets by 2030 and 2070.
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