This document discusses ecosystem restoration and sustainability. It begins by introducing the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration from 2021-2030, which aims to revive billions of hectares of land and sea to prevent further degradation. It then discusses how ecosystem restoration relates to the UN's Sustainable Development Goals and India's National Action Plan on Climate Change. The document outlines various missions focused on areas like forests, water, agriculture, and habitats. It emphasizes the importance of ecological security and restoration in semi-arid regions, outlining challenges and priorities. Potential solutions discussed include biochar, water harvesting, precision agriculture, urban greening, and engaging students as leaders in environmental monitoring.

1. Dr. N. Sai Bhaskar Reddy, Director, The Earth Center, CGR
http://saibhaskar.com | saibhaskarnakka@gmail.com 5th June 2021

2. Ecosystem restoration
This World Environment Day will
kick off the UN Decade on
Ecosystem Restoration (2021-
2030), a global mission to revive
billions of hectares, from forests to
farmlands, from the top of
mountains to the depth of the sea.
The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration aims PREVENTING,
HALTING AND REVERSING THE DEGRADATION OF
ECOSYSTEMS WORLDWIDE.
It can help to end poverty, combat climate change and prevent a mass
extinction. It will only succeed if everyone plays a part.

3. UN SDGs
The Sustainable
Development
Goals (SDGs), also known
as the Global Goals, were
adopted by the United
Nations in 2015 as a
universal call to action to
end poverty, protect the
planet, and ensure that by
2030 all people enjoy peace
and prosperity.

4. NAPCC – Match NATIONAL MISSIONS
Way Forward:
National Solar Mission: Development and
use of solar energy for power generation
National Mission for Enhanced Energy
Efficiency: yield savings of 10,000 MW.
National Mission on Sustainable Habitat:
energy efficiency for urban planning.
National Water Mission: 20% improvement
in water use efficiency: Water Grid

5. NAPCC – Match National Missions
Way Forward:
National Mission for Sustaining the Himalayan Ecosystem
National Mission for a “Green India”: afforestation of 6
million hectares of forest cover from 23% to 33% Haritha
Haram
National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture: climate-
resilient crops, weather insurance and agriculture : Mission
Kakatiya
National Mission on Strategic Knowledge for Climate Change
for a better understanding.

6. Ecological security is the foundation of sustainable and equitable
development. We are committed to strengthen, revive, and restore the
process of ecological succession and the conservation of land, forest,
and water resources in the country.
Works towards the ecological restoration and conservation of land and
water resources in the uplands and other ecofragile, degraded and
marginalised zones of the country, and to this end, to set in place the
processes of coordinated human effort and governance, and provide
relief to the poor, in particular.

7. MAJOR
CONCERNS
RURAL
•DROUGHT PROOFING
•SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS
URBAN
•ENVIRONMENT
•SUSTAINABLE HABITATS

8. LESS VISUAL BUT WITH MAJOR IMPACT
> Temperature increase
> Less & erratic rain
Agriculture and food security
Crop yields, irrigation demands...
Forest
Composition, health and productivity...
Water resources
Water supply, water quality...
Species and natural areas
Biodiversity, modification of ecosystems...
Human health
Infectious diseases, human settlements...
Consequences of
climate change:

9. Priority area for Restoration:
Climate Change Variability In Semi-arid Regions
Precipitation is less than
potential evapotranspiration.
Low annual rainfall of 25 to 60
centimeters and having scrubby
vegetation with short, coarse
grasses; not completely arid.

10. CLIMATE CHANGE VARIABILITY IN SEMI-ARID
REGIONS
Climate Variability and extremes
The people vulnerable to droughts
Increasing crop failures,
dislocation, famine, poverty &
social inequities.

11. RURAL CHALLENGES
Climate
change -
variability -
extremes
Soil
fertility
Water
managem
ent
Impact of
hazardous
pesticides
and
nitrogen
fertilizers
Burning of
crop
residue
Alkalinity
of soils

12. Ecological
Security
Tragedy of the Commons
People
Nature
Livelihoods Environment
Climate
Change
Soil
Water Biodiversity /
Forest
Commons
Climate
Change
Disaster
Resilience

13. https://www.smashwords.c
om/books/view/642405
Earth Conscious – Earth Leadership
https://www.smashwords.c
om/books/view/950727

14. Way Forward: BIOCHAR
Biochar is another name for
charcoal used for purposes
other than combustion.
Like all charcoal, biochar is
created by the pyrolysis of
biomass.
Soil

15. Way Forward:
BIOCHAR
APPLICATION
• SOIL CARBON INCREASE
• MOISTURE CONSERVATION
• FERTILIZERS CONSERVATION
• INCREASE IN YIELD
Soil
https://www.smashwords.
com/books/view/649995

16. CITY
River
Catchment of city
Green Belt
Ringroad
Cascades
Way Forward: Future cities – annular / circular / segregated water
harvesting water bodies

17. Way Forward: Future cities – annular / circular / segregated water
harvesting water bodies

18. Way Forward: Harvest
water before it leaves the
borders of houses, fields,
villages, towns and cities
https://www.smashwords.c
om/books/view/1077428

19. Way Forward: OUTER RING ROAD – 158 KMS LENGTH
PROPOSED REGIONAL RING ROAD – 290 KMS
POTENTIAL FOR ~100 WATER BODIES CREATION

20. Way
Forward:
Roads as
Dams

23. Way Forward: WATER USE EFFICIENCY
MONITORING
WATER AND
ENVIRONMENTAL
PARAMETERS
MONITORING
MANAGEMENT
DECISION
SUPPORT
SYSTEMS

24. Way Forward:
Monitoring
the flows

25. Solar Power
Arduino, SIM 900, Battery,
Temp and Relative Humidity
sensor
Bowman Water Tube with
ultrasonic sensor
RBC Flume with ultrasonic
sensor
ClimaAdapt Project, Kondrapole, Miryalaguda, Nalgonda
Way Forward:

26. Water Level in Field water tube (Bowman) using
ultrasonic sensor
Way Forward:

27. Way Forward:
Polyhouse, Green
House and Precision
Agriculture

28. Sustaining farmers
Farm Laws - The Farmers' Produce Trade and
Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, The
Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act and
The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection)
Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act.
Farm crisis today has ecological roots
https://www.smashwords.co
m/books/view/997274

29. Way Forward: Awareness to
Children on Water
Conservation & Monitoring
Kondrapole, Miryalaguda,
Nalgonda

30. Glow Level for
Tube wells –
Colour LEDs for
different levels
of water in the
tube wells
Way Forward:

31. SOIL MOISTURE
MEASUREMENT IN
THE SOIL
Way Forward:

32. Way Forward: AUTOMATIC WEATHER STATION

33. Way Forward: Weather
Based Crop Insurance

34. BIOCHAR COMPOST BIN
EFFICIENT, CONVENIENT AND
LOW-COST CONVERSION OF
DOMESTIC BIOWASTE INTO
COMPOST USING BIOCHAR

35. https://www.smashwords.
com/books/view/953940

36. Biomass management
• Agriculture or Crop residue
• Invasive species
• Weeds
• Forest biomass (such as pine needles)
https://www.smashwords.c
om/books/view/878122

37. URBAN ROOFTOP GARDENS

38. Advantages of Biochar Urban Gardens
Less weight and insulation
to the rooftops
Economic savings through
access to self grown food
Utilization of urban
organic waste for biochar
compost.
Aesthetics and green
spaces on rooftops
https://www.slideshare.net/saibhask
ar/urban-greenery-ways-and-means

39. https://www.smashwords.co
m/books/view/996073
Way Forward:

40. Way Forward : Improved
Stoves to communities
https://www.smashwords.
com/books/view/643892

41. School Children as Earth
leaders for Environmental
Monitoring
CDKN Project | Taru Leading Edge
Project idea by Dr N Sai Bhaskar Reddy
Implemented by Tejas Patel
1st July 2019 – 30th June 2020
To educate school children on the challenges of their
own environment and develop them as Earth Leaders
and agents of change to disseminate knowledge,
create awareness, trainings given to the students and
teachers for designing the sensor systems. The
website/dashboard using IT capabilities was
developed.
http://earthleader.in/tables
https://www.smash
words.com/books/vi
ew/922525

42. Thank you..