UNCLOS, Silkworm, REDD+ (in Hindi)

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Abhishek Srivastava

United Nations kicked-off talks on a 2020 treaty. With the goal of protecting marine biodiversity and avoiding further pillaging of the oceans. Talk will focus on “the high seas and the international zone of marine waters, or about 46% of the planet’s surface,” Other convention on sea: In 1982, the UN adopted the Convention on the Law of the Sea. The convention took effect in 1994, without the participation of the U.S. It left the high seas free from restrictions.“All States enjoy the traditional freedoms of navigation, overflight, scientific research and fishing on the high seas. The silkworm is the larva or caterpillar or imago of the domestic silkmoth, Bombyx mori. It is an economically important insect, being a primary producer of silk. A silkworm's preferred food is white mulberry leaves, though they may eat other mulberry species and even osage orange. Domestic silkmoths are closely dependent on humans for reproduction, as a result of millennia of selective breeding. Wild silkmoths (vanya ) are different from their domestic cousins as they have not been selectively bred; they are not as commercially viable in the production of silk. Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries (REDD+) first negotiated under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 2005, with the objective of mitigating climate change through reducing net emissions of greenhouse gases through enhanced forest management in developing countries. Most of the key REDD+ decisions were completed by 2013, with the final pieces of the rulebook finished in 2015.