2021-08-17T10:13:05+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|Tags: The Hindu|
Context:- The Plastic Waste Management Amendment Rules notified by the Centre on August 12 acknowledge the gravity of pollution caused by plastic articles of everyday use, particularly those that have no utility beyond a few minutes or hours. […]
2021-08-13T19:29:34+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|Tags: DTE|
The resurgent Taliban is on the victory march to Kabul. It has already taken provincial capitals as well as Afghanistan’s third-largest city of Herat. As the Taliban appear at the gates of Kabul again after two decades, fears have grown about what their conduct will be towards life and livelihood, [...]
2021-08-13T17:28:11+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|Tags: The Indian Express|
Context Earlier this week the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reported on climate science, warning against the folly of a business-as-usual development model. Past assessments have been disregarded as sensationalist. For attention to shift from a day of front-page news to a more strategic conversation, we must understand what [...]
2021-07-26T15:19:31+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|Tags: General Studies III, IE|
European Union introduced new legislation, Fit for 55, to cut its GHG emissions by 55 per cent by 2030 and to net zero by 2050. This is a welcome step for climate action since it turns the EU’s announcement into law, protecting it from the winds of political change. It [...]
2021-07-25T21:59:14+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|
As India’s economy and population continue to grow, so too does its demand for energy. India is also particularly vulnerable to climate change. Solar power could be the answer to both problems. With 300 sunny days a year, India can lead the world in solar capacity. Doing so will require [...]
2021-07-25T21:43:11+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|
In Paris in 2015, leaders from 192 nations committed to limit the increase of global average temperatures since pre-industrial levels to well below 2°C, while pursuing efforts to stay within 1.5°C. Today 131 countries, responsible for 73% of global emissions, have now adopted or are considering net-zero emission targets – [...]
2021-07-24T21:15:01+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|
The Ganga might have stood witness to many stages of India’s civilisation, as Mahatma Gandhi once noted, but in recent decades it has become a conduit for sewage, solid waste, industrial effluents and other pollutants. […]
2021-07-24T08:48:38+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|Tags: D2E|
Important Points 1. According to South Asia lightning Report ,2020 by Earth Networks, a global weather intelligence agency -West Bengal received the highest number of lightning strikes per square kilometer in 2020, followed by Jharkhand, Odisha, Chhattisgarh,Tamil Nadu. […]
2021-07-24T08:13:02+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|Tags: D2E|
Context The Uttarakhand government recently announced it will initiate valuation of its natural resources in the form of ‘Gross Environment Product’ (GEP), said to be along the lines of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). […]
2021-07-21T21:22:00+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|
THE occurrence of two cyclones in consecutive seasons—Cyclone Nisarga in 2020 and cyclone Tauktae in 2021—is highly unusual for the west coast of India but fits in with the warnings of experts. […]
