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30 Jun 2022 Living Lands Charter: Commonwealth

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Recently Commonwealth members agreed to voluntarily dedicate ‘living lands’ in their respective countries to future generations in line with the strategy set for the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.
The ‘Living Lands Charter’ was announced at the conclusion of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) 2022 in Kigali (Rwanda).

The United Nations General Assembly declared the year 2021-30 as the ‘UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration’.
It aims to promote the environmental goals of the United Nations.
To provide global cooperation, especially for the restoration of damaged and destroyed ecosystems.
It calls for the conservation and restoration of ecosystems around the world.

The non-binding ‘Living Lands Charter’ states that member states will protect global land resources and prevent land degradation while working towards sustainable management of climate change, biodiversity loss.
The Living Lands Charter helps cover a joint effort to keep the global average temperature rise to 1.5 °C.
The Charter aims to achieve climate goals by mixing policy impact, funding, technical assistance, governance and knowledge sharing by nations. The Hindu Analysis
Commonwealth governments have been asked to submit their emissions reduction targets by September 23, 2022.
It aims to support member countries to effectively fulfill their commitments under the three Rio Conventions – the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting is a biennial summit of the Heads of Government of all Commonwealth countries.
CHOGM 2022 was organized in Rwanda with the theme- ‘providing a Common Future: Connecting, Innovating, and transforming.’
It has raised over US$4 billion in pledges to fight against malaria and other tropical diseases.
There have been 24 CHOGMs since 1971, the latest meeting being held in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018.

It is an international intergovernmental organization of countries that were mostly territories under the former British Empire.
It was established in 1949 by the London Declaration.
Queen Elizabeth II is the head of the Commonwealth.
Many countries in Africa, Asia, America, Europe and the Pacific are included in the Commonwealth.
Presently 56 countries are its members. Membership is based on free and equal voluntary cooperation.
In the CHOGM 2022, two African countries Gabon and Togo have been included in the Commonwealth of Nations as the 55th and 56th members respectively.
Its headquarter is in London.

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