UNCCD COP17 India Restores 21.76 Million Hectares of Land — 5 Powerful Facts from Mongolia
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia / New Delhi, August 24, 2026 — UNCCD COP17 India has delivered a number that should stop you in your tracks: 1.22 billion. That is how many person-days of employment India generated while restoring 21.76 million hectares of degraded land between 2011 and 2020. Not in some pilot project. Not in a single…