India Joins High Ambition Coalition (HAC) for Nature and People

India Joins High Ambition Coalition (HAC) for Nature and People

Part of: GS-Prelims and Mains GS-III: Climate change

In News: India has joined the High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People, a group of more than 70 countries encouraging the adoption of the global goal to protect 30×30.

• Initiated at the “One Planet Summit” in Paris in January 2021, this coalition aims to promote an international agreement to protect at least 30 % the of world’s land and ocean by 2030.
• HAC members currently include a mix of countries in the global north and south; European, Latin American, Africa and Asia countries are among the members. 
• India is the first of the BRICS bloc of major emerging economies (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) to join the HAC.

News Source: PIB