2022-09-03T16:54:06+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|Tags: The Hindu|
Background:- The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India, notified the Plastic Waste Management Amendment Rules, 2021 on August 12, 2021. In keeping with the spirit of the ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’, the country is taking steps to curb littered and unmanaged plastic waste pollution. [...]
2023-01-02T14:23:05+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|
Context:- Earth Over Shoot Day 2022 If the citizens of the world lived like those of the United States, the resources of more than five full planets would be needed to satisfy the global need for resources every year. This data is highlighted annually by the NGO Global Footprint Network, [...]
2022-07-29T15:06:17+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|
Context:- Last month, India protested against its ranking on the Environmental Performance Index (EPI) of 2022, prepared by researchers at the Yale and Columbia Universities in the U.S. The report measures 40 performance indicators across 11 categories to measure the “state of sustainability around the world.” India was ranked last (180) [...]
2022-05-15T22:16:44+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|
2022-05-15T20:04:43+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|
2022-03-14T13:19:21+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|
The “official” definition of sustainable development was developed for the first time in the Brundtland Report in 1987. Sustainable development is the idea that human societies must live and meet their needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Sustainable development is the idea that human societies must [...]
2021-11-05T11:49:53+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|Tags: The Hindu|
In a surprise move at COP26 in Glasgow, Prime Minister of India announced that India will commit to ambitious, enhanced climate targets and cuts in carbon emissions in its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). […]
2021-08-21T09:42:54+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|Tags: gny|
The world is pursuing a path of liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation, keys to human development. India is walking the same track, targeting a five trillion economy in the near future. We expect higher GDP, better economic status and a high standard of living like other developed countries. However, linear infrastructure [...]
2021-08-21T09:06:14+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|Tags: Frontline|
Sunderlal Bahuguna with his wife, Vimla […]
2021-08-17T10:47:10+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|Tags: The Hindu|
Context The recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Working Group I contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), titled ‘Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis’, is the first of four that the Panel will issue over the next one and a half years. [...]
