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Four countries pledge to restore 30 million hectares of degraded lands at UN Summit

2014-09-25 23:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: In 2011, Germany and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature launched the Bonn Challenge, which pledged to restore 150 million hectares of degraded and deforested lands by 2020. Several countries have already made commitments-including the U.S.-but this week at the UN Climate Summit four more jumped on board. The Democratic Republic of the Congo committed to restoring 8 million hectares, Uganda committed to 2.5 million hectares, and Guatemala committed to restoring 1.2 million hectares....

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