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.
