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T1 Our Planet : Forests - Nature at Your Service
A1 United Nations Environment Programme, 
K1 forest
K1 climate change
PB United Nations Environment Programme
SN 1013-7394
YR 2011
FD 2011-06
LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7978
UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7978
NO This year marks a first for the long-standing relationship between India and the United Nations. For the first time ever, India will host World Environment Day (WED). With a population of 1.2 billion people, a rapidly growing economy and a diverse cultural past, present and future there is enormous potential for India to catalyze and to champion sustainable development nationally and internationally. This year’s WED theme is ‘Forests:  Nature at Your Service’. It speaks to the intrinsic connection between livelihoods and human well-being and the health of forests and forest ecosystems. India has shown leadership by, for example, instituting a tree-planting system to combat land-degradation and desertification, including windbreaks and shelterbelts to protect agricultural land. The recently launched Mission for Green India, as part of National Action Plan on Climate Change, aims at qualitaitive as well as quantitative improvement in forest cover over 10 million hectares, with an estimated outlay of about US$10 billion over the next 10 years.
DS UN Environment Document Repository
RD Sep 17, 2026