{"id":90604,"date":"2020-07-30T13:58:35","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T08:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=16633"},"modified":"2020-07-30T13:58:35","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T08:28:35","slug":"centre-launches-pilot-project-to-reduce-emissions-from-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/centre-launches-pilot-project-to-reduce-emissions-from-agriculture\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre launches pilot project to reduce emissions from agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>The Government of India has launched the Green-Ag Project to reduce emissions from agriculture and ensure sustainable agricultural practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Objective: <\/strong>To catalyse transformative change of India\u2019s agricultural sector to support achievement of national and global environmental benefits and conservation of critical biodiversity and forest landscapes.<\/li><li><strong>Funding: <\/strong>The project is funded by the Global Environment Facility while the Department of Agriculture, Cooperation, and Farmers\u2019 Welfare (DAC&amp;FW) is the national executing agency.<ul><li>Other key players involved in its implementation are the Food and Agriculture Organization(FAO) and the Environment Ministry (MoEF&amp;CC).<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>Coverage: <\/strong>The project is being implemented in the states of Mizoram, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha and Uttarakhand.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Global Environment Facility(GEF): <\/strong>It is a Trust Fund established on the eve of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit.<\/li><li><strong>Aim: <\/strong>To help developing countries and countries with economies in transition to meet the objectives of the international environmental conventions and agreements.<\/li><li><strong>Trustee: <\/strong>World Bank serves as the GEF Trustee administering the GEF Trust Fund (contributions by donors).<\/li><li><strong>Financial Mechanism: <\/strong>GEF is a financial mechanism for five major international environmental conventions:&nbsp;<ul><li>Minamata Convention on Mercury<\/li><li>Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants(POPs),&nbsp;<\/li><li>United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity(UNCBD),&nbsp;<\/li><li>United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification(UNCCD)&nbsp;<\/li><li>United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The Government of India has launched the Green-Ag Project to reduce emissions from agriculture and ensure sustainable agricultural practices. Facts: Objective: To catalyse transformative change of India\u2019s agricultural sector to support achievement of national and global environmental benefits and conservation of critical biodiversity and forest landscapes. Funding: The project is funded by the Global&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/centre-launches-pilot-project-to-reduce-emissions-from-agriculture\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Centre launches pilot project to reduce emissions from agriculture<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1731],"tags":[7831],"class_list":["post-90604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bill-and-acts","tag-green-ag-project","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704830637},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}