CBD COP-17, where India delivered its National Statement, was held in which city?
- A.Baku, Azerbaijan
- B.Yerevan, Armenia
- C.Tbilisi, Georgia
- D.Cali, Colombia
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Explanation
The correct answer is Yerevan, Armenia. The 17th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity met at Yerevan, and the Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change thanked the Government of Armenia for hosting the seventeenth meeting of the Convention. Option A is wrong because Baku is the capital of Azerbaijan and no session of this Convention was reported there. Option C is wrong because Tbilisi, the Georgian capital, is not the host city either; it is listed here only because the three capitals lie in the same region and are easy to confuse. Option D deserves care: the Cali Fund takes its name from an earlier session and is mentioned in India's statement, so a candidate who recalls the fund but not the venue may pick it by mistake. Keep the pair clearly separated: Yerevan is the venue of COP-17, while the Cali Fund is the mechanism India supported for sharing benefits from digital sequence information.
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Practice Questions
India's updated National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan translates the global framework into how many National Biodiversity Targets?
- A.17 targets
- B.23 targets
- C.30 targets
- D.42 targets
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India's minister told the High-Level Segment that the country's updated National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan converts the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework into 23 National Biodiversity Targets, and that progress against them is measured through 142 indicators.
Read the full explanation →As stated by India at CBD COP-17, how many Ramsar sites does the country have?
- A.57
- B.75
- C.103
- D.112
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In its National Statement India listed its conservation network as 1,134 Protected Areas, 103 Ramsar sites, 57 Biodiversity Heritage Sites and 18 Biosphere Reserves, of which 13 belong to the Man and the Biosphere network of UNESCO.
Read the full explanation →'One Nation, One Time', referred to at the CIML meeting, is the name of which Indian project?
- A.A single time zone for the whole country
- B.The National Time Dissemination Project
- C.A single financial year for all states
- D.A common clock for railway timetables
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Smt. Nidhi Khare, Secretary in the Department of Consumer Affairs, described 'One Nation, One Time' as this project, whose aim is to make accurate, reliable and traceable Indian Standard Time available throughout the country.
Read the full explanation →What was the theme of the international seminar held at the opening of the CIML meeting in New Delhi?
- A.Measures for a Viksit Bharat
- B.Evolutions in Legal Metrology
- C.Standards for Fair Trade
- D.Metrology in the Digital Age
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The programme in New Delhi began with an international seminar on that theme, and the first session of the committee followed it.
Read the full explanation →The International Committee of Legal Metrology (CIML) is the governing committee of which international organisation?
- A.International Organization of Legal Metrology (OIML)
- B.International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
- C.World Trade Organization (WTO)
- D.International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
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CIML is the committee of the OIML, and the meeting in New Delhi brings together delegates, officials and technical experts from member countries to take forward cooperation on measurement standards, protection of consumers and fair trade.
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