The Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS)

-is a network of 83 central banks and financial supervisors that aims to accelerate the scaling up of green finance and develop recommendations for central banks' role for climate change

- RBI joined it.

-HQ - Paris , France

-Launched @ One Planet Summit

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Strengthening Forest Fire Management in India Report.

-It was jointly prepared by Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and World Bank.

-At least 60% of Indian districts are affected by forest fires.

-The states in the North East account for the greatest share of fire detections.

-The Central India is the largest area affected by forest fires.

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Second World Ocean Assessment report

The United Nations recently released the Second World Ocean Assessment report. 
The number of dead zones in the oceans have doubled. It has increased from 400 in 2008 to 700 in 2019.

Dead Zones in the Ocean

Dead Zone is a common term used for Hypoxia. That is, the areas with reduced level of oxygen. They are those areas where the marine organisms in the ocean face Hypoxia.

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White Bellied Heron:

● The White-bellied Heron is a rare and elusive bird.It is the second largest living species of heron.

● Habitat: It is one of the rarest birds in the world and is at present found only in Bhutan, Myanmar and the Namdapha Tiger Reserve in Arunachal Pradesh, India.It had also been recorded in the Kamlang Tiger Reserve in Lohit district in Arunachal Pradesh through camera trap images.

● IUCN Status: Critically Endangered

● Indian Wildlife Protection Act,1972: Schedule IV

Why in News? The white-bellied heron was spotted at Walong in the Anjaw district of Arunachal Pradesh.

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Scab Disease (Venturia Inaequalis)

Infested apple production in Kashmir
Asia＂s largest fruit mandi in Sopore district

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National Vulture Conservation Action Plan (2020 - 25)

Most common vultures - oriental white-backed, long-billed, and slender-billed declined by more than 96 % in a decade (1993 - 2003)

Reason: diclofenac, a non-steroidal drug given to cattle to treat inflammation – caused kidney failure in vultures

In 2006,1st vulture conservation plan - banned the veterinary use of diclofenac

8 breeding centers: Pinjore (Haryana), Rajabhatkhawa (West Bengal), Rani (Assam),
Van Vihar (Madhya Pradesh), Nandankanan Zoo (Odisha), Nehru Zoological Park
(Telangana), Muta Zoo (Jharkhand) and Sakkarbagh Zoo (Gujarat).

In 2015, it restricted the vial size of diclofenac formulation for humans to 3 ml to check its use by the veterinarian, who need much higher dosage for treating cattle. It was also made a schedule H drug (under the Drug and Cosmetics Act 1940), which means it cannot be sold without a doctor＂s prescription.

Vultures are considered safe if the prevalence of diclofenac in cattle carcasses drops to below 1% 3 more drugs - ketoprofen, nimesulide and aceclofenac—which are toxic to vultures are still used

New plan: meloxicam and tolfenamic. It has suggested diclofenac be considered as
a schedule X drug, which makes it mandatory for a chemist to retain a copy of the prescriptions against which diclofenac is sold. The copies need to be produced when the
sales records are audited. It suggests that DCGI should institute a system that automatically removes a drug from veterinary use if it is found to be toxic to vultures.
Aims to promote safe alternative drugs such as

India has over nine vulture species and most states have at least six of them

Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Assam, Jharkhand and Tamil Nadu—have set up these vulture safe zones

Critically endangered – red headed, long billed, slender billed & oriental white backed vulture
Near threatened – breaded and Himalayan vulture
Threatened – Egyptian vulture.

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One Planet Summit

It has been organised by France in cooperation with the United Nations and the World Bank.

Objective: The summit focuses on four major topics
1) protecting terrestrial and marine ecosystems; promoting agro ecology
2) more sustainable way to grow food
c) increasing funding to protect biodiversity and
4) identifying links between deforestation and the health of humans and animals.

Theme: “Let’s act together for nature!”.
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Biomineralization is the study of processes that lead to the formation of hierarchically structured organic–inorganic materials generated by living organisms, such as shells, bone and teeth.

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40 Tonnes of Fish die in Lebanon

◆River Litani is the longest river in Lebanon.
◆It has an artificial lake called the Qaraoun lake created by the Litani river dam.
◆Around forty tonnes of fish were recently washed on the banks of the lake due to excessive pollution.

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Crocidura narcondamica: New Shrew species found at A&N

◆ZSI has discovered a new insect eating mammal species. 

Crocidura Norcondamica

◆It is almost the size of the house mouse.
◆It lives in the forest floor and feed on insects.
◆It was found in Norcondam Island.
◆It belongs to Shrews family.Shrews are not rodents.

●Norcondam Island-

It is a small volcanic island located in the northern Andaman sea.
The Narcondam hornbill is endemic to the island and is endangered.

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Climate change cause shift in earth axis-New study

The study has added yet another impact of climate change on the earth - marked shifts in the axis along which the Earth rotates.

It says that due to the significant melting of glaciers because of global temperature rise, our planet's axis of rotation has been moving more than usual since the 1990s

Generally, polar motion is caused by changes in the hydrosphere, atmosphere, oceans, or solid Earth.

But now, climate change is adding to the degree with which the poles wander


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Net Zero Producers' forum

◆Five of the world's major oil and gas producers are working together to 'develop pragmatic net-zero emission strategies'.

◆Qatar, the US, Saudi Arabia, Canada and Norway, collectively responsible for 40% of global oil and gas production, will come together to form a cooperative forum that will develop pragmatic net zero-emission strategies.

◆Energy producers are faced with unique responsibilities to furnish the world with energy but the climate crisis requires serious leadership and a strong alliance to deliver a path to net-zero.

◆The Net Zero Producers' Forum will consider strategies and technologies which include methane abatement, circular carbon economy approach, development and deployment of clean energy and carbon capture and storage technologies, diversification from reliance on hydrocarbon revenues etc.

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Koundinya Wildlife Sanctuary
• Kaundinya Wildlife Sanctuary is a wildlife sanctuary and an elephant reserve situated in Andhra
Pradesh, India.
• It is the only sanctuary in Andhra Pradesh with a population of Asian elephants, which migrated after
200 years from neighbouring regions. (from the forests of Anekal-Hosur in Tamil
Nadu and Bannerghatta in Karnataka)
• The sanctuary has dry deciduous forests with thorny scrubs interspersed with trees.

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India's first Geothermal Energy Power Plant Project in Ladakh


There are four major types of Geothermal energy resources.

 Hydrothermal 
 Geopressurised brines
 Hot dry rocks
 Magma

There are seven geothermal provinces in India : the Himalayas, Sohana, West coast, Cambay, Son-Narmada-Tapi (SONATA), Godavari, and Mahanadi. 

Geothermal energy's largest producer is the United States

Geothermal plants at Manikaram HP, Puga Valley Ladhak



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