Environment & Ecology Mixed Quiz: Set 37

Formally the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, it adopted Agenda 21, a non-binding action plan for the twenty-first century covering every level from the global to the local, along with the Rio Declaration, a statement of forest principles, the Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Convention on…

The National Action Plan on Climate Change was released on 30 June 2008 by the Prime Minister's Council on Climate Change, and it set out the eight National Missions through which India would act on climate change at home.

The Green India Mission is written around two halves of 5 million hectares each: new forest and tree cover on 5 million hectares of land that does not carry forest, and an improvement in the quality of the forest already standing on another 5 million hectares, so the mission's total…

The earthworm is called the farmer's friend because its work keeps soil fit for crops. As it burrows it loosens the soil and lets air and water reach the roots, and the castings it leaves behind are rich in nitrogen, phosphorus and potash, so the topsoil is steadily renewed.

It has been given the task of coordinating and overseeing the goals in India, mapping each goal and target to central ministries and to centrally sponsored schemes, and it publishes the SDG India Index, which scores states and Union Territories on their performance.

Under it a country with a Kyoto target financed a project such as a wind farm, a biomass plant or a more efficient kiln in a developing country, and the emissions avoided were issued to it as certified emission reductions that counted towards its own target, while the host country…

That body is the implementing arm of the Namami Gange programme for cleaning the river Ganga, created under the river conservation effort and not under the climate plan; its concern is pollution in one river basin rather than greenhouse gases.

Gahirmatha, on the Odisha coast beside the Bhitarkanika mangroves, is the only turtle sanctuary notified in India and protects the world's largest mass nesting ground of the olive ridley turtle, where the phenomenon of arribada, or mass nesting, takes place.

The Millennium Development Goals were agreed after the United Nations Millennium Summit of 2000 and ran until 2015, covering extreme poverty and hunger, universal primary education, gender equality, child mortality, maternal health, HIV and other diseases, environmental sustainability and a global partnership for development.

An ecotone is the transition zone where two different ecosystems meet and mix, such as the belt between a grassland and a forest, an estuary between a river and the sea, or a mangrove strip between land and ocean.

The updated first Nationally Determined Contribution submitted in August 2022 raised the promise on emissions intensity, the greenhouse gas emitted per unit of gross domestic product, to a 45 per cent reduction by 2030 against the 2005 level.

Parthenium hysterophorus reached India from tropical America, reportedly with imported wheat, and spread rapidly over waste ground, roadsides and fallow fields.

Goal 6 seeks to ensure the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all, which includes safe and affordable drinking water, an end to open defecation, better water quality and the protection of water-related ecosystems; in India the Swachh Bharat Mission and the Jal Jeevan Mission are the…

The correct answer is A, the National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources at New Delhi, an institute of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, which holds the National Gene Bank where seeds of crop plants and their wild relatives are stored at low temperature for long-term conservation.

At the twenty-sixth Conference of the Parties, held at Glasgow in 2021, the Prime Minister announced five pledges that came to be called Panchamrit, the last of which was net zero emissions by 2070, together with targets on non-fossil energy capacity, the share of renewable energy, the cut in projected…

Global Tiger Day, also called International Tiger Day, was adopted at the St Petersburg tiger summit of 2010, where the thirteen tiger range countries agreed on the goal of doubling wild tiger numbers.

It was the first global conference to treat the environment as a subject of international policy, and the United Nations Environment Programme was created later that year as a direct result, with its headquarters at Nairobi in Kenya; the opening day of the conference, 5 June, is observed every year…

The correct answer is C, Rajasthan, where the bird is called the godawan and where its stronghold, the Desert National Park near Jaisalmer, holds most of the surviving population; conservation breeding centres in that district raise chicks for release into the wild.

Goal 17 is the means-of-implementation goal: it covers finance, technology transfer, capacity building, trade, policy coherence, multi-stakeholder partnerships and the data and monitoring needed to track the other sixteen goals, and it is the reason the agenda is described as a global partnership rather than a list of national duties.

The Forest Survey of India, set up in 1981, has its headquarters at Dehradun in Uttarakhand, the city that is also home to the Forest Research Institute and the Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy, which makes Dehradun the centre of forestry work in the country.