India at #CBDCOP17 | Yerevan, Armenia | 29 October 2026
The Forest Survey of India (FSI) convened Side Event #8037, titled "Counting What Counts: Delivering and Demonstrating the Global Biodiversity Framework through Capacity-Enabled Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR), Community-Governed OECMs and an Integrated Monitoring Backbone."

The event featured an address by Dr. S. Senthil Kumar, IFS, Director General, FSI, on India's approach to implementing the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KM-GBF), focusing on forest landscape restoration, conservation and biodiversity monitoring. Shri Ashutosh Agnihotri, IAS, Additional Secretary, MoEFCC, delivered a special address. This was followed by a panel discussion featuring delegates from FSI and MoEFCC, along with representatives of RECAP4NDC consortium partners GIZ, IUCN, TERI and ICIMOD. The event was also attended by Shri Virendra Tiwari, Chairman, NBA, and Dr. B. Balaji, IFS, Member-Secretary, NBA. #ForestSurveyOfIndia #MoEFCC #NBA #RECAP4NDC #GIZ #IUCN #TERI #ICIMOD #CBDCOP17 #KMGBF #FLR #OECMs #Biodiversity