The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) was signed in the year-
- A.2000
- B.2001
- C.1998
- D.1999
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, 2001. The Stockholm Convention was adopted in 2001 and came into force in 2004. It aims to eliminate or restrict persistent organic pollutants, chemicals such as some pesticides and industrial compounds that resist breaking down, travel long distances, accumulate in fatty tissue and harm human health; the original list was known as the dirty dozen. India is a party to the convention.
Option A, 2000, is the year of the Cartagena Protocol on biosafety, made under the Convention on Biological Diversity, and is easy to confuse. Option C, 1998, is the year of the Rotterdam Convention on prior informed consent for hazardous chemicals in trade, which is a related but separate treaty. Option D, 1999, has no major chemical convention attached to it. The chemical trio worth memorising is Basel in 1989 on hazardous waste, Rotterdam in 1998 on trade in chemicals, and Stockholm in 2001 on persistent organic pollutants.
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Practice Questions
View allOne of India's worst industrial disasters of all time occurred in Bhopal on December 1984, in which of the following factories?
- A.Exide
- B.Bharat Rasayan Limited
- C.Union Carbide
- D.UPL Limited
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On the night of 2 and 3 December 1984, methyl isocyanate gas leaked from the pesticide plant of Union Carbide India Limited at Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh, killing thousands of people and injuring many more.
Read the full explanation →The Red Data book which lists endangered species is maintained -
- A.UNO
- B.IUCN
- C.WHO
- D.WWF
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Founded in 1948 and based in Switzerland, it maintains the Red List of Threatened Species, which grades species as least concern, near threatened, vulnerable, endangered, critically endangered, extinct in the wild or extinct.
Read the full explanation →National Clean Air Programme was launched by the Central Government in which year?
- A.2018
- B.2017
- C.2020
- D.2019
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The National Clean Air Programme was launched by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in January 2019 as a national framework to cut particulate pollution in cities that do not meet the national ambient air quality standards.
Read the full explanation →The Environment (Protection) Act, often described as an umbrella legislation, was enacted in which year?
- A.1974
- B.1981
- C.1986
- D.1991
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The Act was passed in the wake of the Bhopal gas tragedy and gives the central government a general power to take any measure it considers necessary to protect and improve the quality of the environment.
Read the full explanation →The National Green Tribunal was established under an Act of which year?
- A.1995
- B.2006
- C.2010
- D.2016
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The National Green Tribunal Act was passed in 2010 and the tribunal began work in the same year, to provide quick and specialised disposal of cases on environmental protection and forest conservation.
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