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Ranchi: Celebrating the World Environment Day, the Centre for Environment and Energy Development (CEED) organised two online sessions through Facebook live sessions to raise public awareness on healing the environment and deliberating on far-sighted and proven solutions of ecological restoration to make the planet more healthy and sustainable.
The two sessions ‘Regenerating Ecosystems for a Sustainable Future’ and ‘Ecosystem Regeneration through Energy Efficiency’ were aligned with the official theme, ‘Ecological Restoration’, of the World Environment Day. The United Nations has also designated 2021-2030 as the decade for ‘ecosystem restoration’ and over 70 countries, including India, around the world have pledged to bring 350 million hectares of the deforested and degraded land into restoration by 2030.