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👉The International Monetary Fund's growth projections for India in its latest World Economic Outlook Update released on Tuesday reflected a strong rebound in the economy, which is estimated to have contracted by eight per cent in 2020 due to the pandemic.

👉In its latest update, the IMF projected a 11.5 per cent growth rate for India in 2021. This makes India the only major economy of the world to register a double-digit growth in 2021, it said.

✒️International Monetary Fund HQ👉Washington D.C,U.S.A
Reports released by IMF👇
➢ Global financial stability report
➢World Economic outlook
🤔There were many direct questions in UPSC prelims too,based on report and indices released by various international organizations.
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Direct question in UP PCS exam.
👉Union Environment Ministry has committed to rejuvenate 50 lakh hectares (5 million) of degraded land between 2021 and 2030.

👉A Centre for Excellence would be set up in Dehradun for land degradation neutrality.
Land Degradation Neutrality

🌍Land degradation neutrality (LDN) is a condition where further land degradation (loss of productivity caused by environmental or human factors) is prevented and already degraded land can be restored.

👉LDN has been defined by the Parties to the Convention as:
– A state whereby the amount and quality of land resources, necessary to support ecosystem functions and services and enhance food security, remains stable or increases within specified temporal and spatial scales and ecosystems.

✒️India’s initiatives:
👉India became part of the “Bonn Challenge”, a global effort to bring 150 million hectares of the world’s deforested and degraded land into restoration by 2020, and 350 million hectares by 2030.

👉India’s pledge is one of the largest in Asia.

👉Schemes such as the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana, Soil Health Card Scheme, Soil Health Management Scheme and Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana are seen as prongs to tackle this land degradation.

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👉United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)Established in 1994, the UNCCD is the only legally binding international agreement linking environment and development issues to the land agenda.

👉It addresses specifically the arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas, known as the drylands, where some of the most vulnerable ecosystems and peoples can be found.

👉2006 was declared “International Year of Deserts and Desertification”.

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🌍The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also known as the Global Goals, were adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015 as a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity by 2030.

The 17 SDGs are integrated—that is, they recognize that action in one area will affect outcomes in others, and that development must balance social, economic and environmental sustainability.

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It is a low hanging fruit because every serious Upsc aspirant have knowledge about it, as it is helpful in mains answer writing as well as in prelims of various exams.

🤔There was 1 question directly asked in UPPSC prelims examination 2019 About goal no.6.
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📌Malabar Naval Exercise 2020: Showcasing India, US, Japan and Australia's resolve to support an open Indo-Pacific, the exercise focuses on increasing the countries' cooperation in the region that has been witnessing increasing Chinese military assertiveness.

👉UPSC have tendency to ask questions indirectly in the exams, So please glance through the locations in the map related to this Naval exercise.

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