Environment & Ecology GK Questions with Answers – Page 2

The Kyoto Protocol was adopted in December 1997 at Kyoto in Japan under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and came into force in February 2005.

COP-27 was the 27th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The UNFCCC was adopted at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, and its parties meet every year at a COP.

Statement 1 is right: all four were declared Ramsar wetlands of international importance in 2021, Sultanpur and Bhindawas in Haryana, and Thol and Wadhwana in Gujarat.

Planting trees helps recharge groundwater: roots and leaf litter slow the run-off and let rain soak into the soil and down to the aquifers.

Only pair I is correct; pairs II, III and IV each give a goal the theme of the next goal.

Sacred groves are patches of forest protected by local communities for religious reasons, so they conserve biodiversity instead of reducing it.

The SDGs form the core of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all UN member states in September 2015.

The IUCN publishes the Red List of Threatened Species, the world's main list of species at risk. The IUCN was founded in 1948 and has its headquarters at Gland in Switzerland.

Lying between India and Sri Lanka off Tamil Nadu, it is built around a chain of 21 small islands with estuaries, beaches, coral reefs, salt marshes, seagrass beds and mangroves.

This statement is false: biogas is an excellent fuel with a high heating capacity. Biogas is mostly methane, about 50 to 75 percent, with carbon dioxide and small amounts of other gases.

Point Calimere, also called Kodiakkarai, lies in the Nagapattinam district of Tamil Nadu, a state, where the Coromandel Coast turns west towards Palk Strait.

The India Integrated Coastal Zone Management Project was launched by the Ministry of Environment and Forests in 2010 with World Bank support.

Sulphur and nitrogen oxides from industries in the Great Lakes region and the US Midwest are carried by westerly winds and fall as acid rain and snow over eastern Canada.

Global warming is the long-term rise in the average temperature at the earth's surface, and it is driven mainly by the growing amount of greenhouse gases in the air, so Statement II explains Statement I. Sunlight warms the ground, which gives off heat as infrared radiation.

Mild to cold seasons, good rainfall, broad-leaved deciduous trees like maple and oak, and animals like raccoons and squirrels mark the temperate deciduous forest.

Neodymium and dysprosium are rare earth elements used mainly in strong permanent magnets, not in solar cells, while tellurium and gallium are used in photovoltaic cells.

Among the gases listed, carbon dioxide is present in by far the largest amount, about 0.04 per cent of the air, which is roughly two hundred times the amount of methane.

The Great Himalayan area in Himachal Pradesh is a national park, not a biosphere reserve. The Great Himalayan National Park lies in Kullu district of Himachal Pradesh.

This is false: the north-east has several tiger reserves. Manas, Kaziranga, Nameri and Orang in Assam, Namdapha, Pakke (Pakhui) and Kamlang in Arunachal Pradesh, and Dampa in Mizoram are all tiger reserves.

NPOP is run by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, not Rural Development, while the statements about APEDA and Sikkim are correct.