Environment & Ecology Quiz: Climate Change and Global Warming

Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas: it lets in the short wave radiation of the sun but absorbs a part of the long wave infrared radiation that the warmed earth sends back, and radiates it downwards again.

The two bodies set up the panel in 1988 so that governments would have a single authoritative summary of what science says about climate change.

The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, popularly called the Earth Summit, produced the Framework Convention on Climate Change along with the Convention on Biological Diversity and Agenda 21.

The Kyoto Protocol was adopted at the third Conference of the Parties held in the Japanese city of Kyoto in 1997, and it came into force in 2005 after enough countries had ratified it.

The Paris Agreement, adopted at the twenty-first Conference of the Parties in 2015 and in force from November 2016, commits its parties to holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursuing efforts to limit the increase to one…

Global warming potential measures how much heat a mass of a gas traps over a chosen period compared with the same mass of carbon dioxide, which is given the value one.

The National Action Plan on Climate Change was released in 2008 and is built around eight national missions: the National Solar Mission, the National Mission for Enhanced Energy Efficiency, the National Mission on Sustainable Habitat, the National Water Mission, the National Mission for Sustaining the Himalayan Ecosystem, the National Mission…

The Montreal Protocol was agreed in 1987 under the Vienna Convention to phase out the substances that destroy stratospheric ozone, chiefly chlorofluorocarbons used in refrigeration, air conditioning and aerosol sprays.

The International Solar Alliance was launched jointly by India and France at the Paris climate conference in 2015 to promote solar energy among countries that lie largely between the tropics, and its secretariat was established at the campus of the National Institute of Solar Energy at Gwal Pahari in Gurugram…

That is the consequence of ozone depletion, a separate problem caused by chlorofluorocarbons thinning the ozone layer in the stratosphere, and it is addressed by the Montreal Protocol.