New Delhi [India], March 28 (ANI): The second day of the 2nd Environment and Climate Sustainability Working Group (ECSWG) assembly commenced at Gandhinagar, Gujarat with the opening remarks by G20 Co-chair for India, Richa Sharma, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.
Speaking on the event, she emphasised the necessity to collaborate with the G20 nations and interact in an inclusive, consensus-driven method and actions to deal with local weather change.
She expressed her gratitude to the delegates for his or her lively involvement within the first ECSWG assembly and the Focus Group Discussions between the 2 working Group conferences on the three thematic priorities.
She reaffirmed India’s dedication to facilitate tangible outcomes to construct a powerful basis earlier than passing on the baton to the Brazil Presidency.
Acknowledging the work of previous Presidencies and the deliberations on the three priorities in the course of the 1st ECSWG, Sharma highlighted the significance of receiving inputs in the course of the technical periods which might assist form the outcomes for every precedence.
She additional expressed that constant and enthusiastic participation from all delegates will tremendously facilitate the method of finalizing the draft Communique. The representatives from the Troika (Indonesia and Brazil) echoed the Co-Chair’s remarks on the anticipated outcomes from the G20 India Presidency.
As per the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate ChangeThe inaugural session was adopted by the primary technical session of the day on Water Resource Management, led by Debashree Mukherjee, Special Secretary, of Water Resources, Ministry of Jal Shakti. The shows made in the course of the session highlighted the necessity for environment friendly administration of water assets to attain the overarching UN Sustainable Development Goals and likewise addressed world water challenges equivalent to local weather change, inhabitants progress, and rising water demand.
” Thematic presentations were also made on Namami Gange -an integrated Conservation Mission to accomplish effective abatement of pollution, conservation and rejuvenation of Ganga, climate-resilient infrastructure – water storage/ Dam Rehabilitation and Improvement Project (DRIP), participatory groundwater management, Jal Jeevan mission – a project to provide safe and adequate drinking water by 2024 to all households in rural India, and Swachh Bharat – the project on Universalization of Water Sanitation and Hygiene and its effects. These presentations further corroborated the ever-demanding need for such initiatives to address the depleting level of groundwater at an alarming rate” the ministry addedMinistry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change additional stated that the main target of the second technical session was on land restoration and sharing of finest practices on this matter.
In his opening remarks for the session, Bivash Ranjan, Additional Director General of Forest, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change highlighted the important thing inputs collated from the deliberations of the first ECSWG, targeted group discussions and the written inputs shared by the member nations. The deliberations on the topic have been in favour of a collaborative and consensus-driven method, directed at how the important thing inputs are being integrated within the improvement of the proposed outcomes underneath the India Presidency.
Further, Bivash Ranjan appreciated the constructive inputs shared and the lively participation of the nations in growing the outcomes proposed by the Presidency.
The session noticed partaking discussions by the delegates on the 2 precedence landscapes recognized underneath India’s Presidency, that are forest fire-impacted areas and mining-affected areas.
Experts representing organisations just like the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) and the Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE) delivered shows on the proposed Gandhinagar Implementation Roadmap (GIR) on land restoration in correlation with local weather change mitigation and adaptation actions, and draft publications have been proposed as a compendium of finest practices and improvement of a data sharing platform respectively. (ANI)