IPCC
- Created in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

- Headquarter: Geneva

- Objective: To provide governments at all levels with scientific information that they can use to develop climate policies. IPCC reports are also a key input into international climate change negotiations.

Composition:The IPCC is an organization of governments that are members of the United Nations or WMO. The IPCC currently has 195 members.

Amazon rainforests
▪️ It is the world’s biggest rainforest, larger than the next two largest rainforests in the
Congo Basin and Indonesia combined.
▪️The Amazon River is by far the world’s largest river by volume.
▪️The Amazon River once had flown west-ward instead of east-ward as it does today. The rise
of the Andes caused it to flow into the Atlantic Ocean.
▪️It is bounded by the Guiana Highlands to the north, the Andes Mountains to the west, the Brazilian central plateau to the south, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east

Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary

- It is located in Wayanad, Kerala.
-This biodiversity hotspot is an integral part of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve.
-It is bounded by protected area network of Nagarhole and Bandipur of Karnataka in the northeast, and on the southeast by Mudumalai of Tamil Nadu.
- The wildlife sanctuary comes under Protect Elephant

▪️Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary
-The sanctuary is situated in the flood plains of river Brahmaputra in the district of Morigaon.

-It is often called ‘Mini Kaziranga’ due to similar landscape and vegetation.

- The wildlife sanctuary is home to endangered one-horned rhinoceros and the other mammals such as Leopard, Leopard cat, Fishing cat, Jungle cat, Feral Buffalo, Wild pigs, Chinese pangolins, etc.

-About 72% of Pobitora Sanctuary consists of wet savannah of Arundodonax and Saccharum.

State of Global Air Report
-It brings into one place the latest information on air quality and health for
countries around the globe.
- It is produced annually by the Health Effects Institute and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation’s Global Burden of Disease project as a source of objective, peer-reviewed air quality data and analysis.


Health Effects Institute (HEI)
- It is a non-profit corporation chartered in 1980 as an independent research organization to provide high-quality, impartial, and relevant science on the health effects of air pollution.
- It is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

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Biodiversity Heritage Sites:
•-Under Section 37 of Biological Diversity Act, 2002 (BDA) the State Government in consultation with local bodies may notify in the official gazette, areas of biodiversity importance as Biodiversity Heritage Sites (BHS).

•-“Biodiversity Heritage Sites” (BHS) are well defined areas that are unique, ecologically fragile ecosystems – terrestrial, coastal and inland waters and, marine having rich biodiversity comprising of any one or more of the following components:
-Richness of wild as well as domesticated species or intra-specific categories
-High endemism
-Presence of rare and threatened species
-Keystone species
-Species of evolutionary significance
-Wild ancestors of domestic/cultivated species or their varieties
-Past pre-eminence of biological components represented by fossil beds and
-Having significant cultural, ethical or aesthetic values and are important for the maintenance of cultural diversity, with or without a long history of human association with them.


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GREEN FIRECRACKER

Swas, Star, and Safal are less polluting green firecrackers that are developed by the National Environmental and Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), a Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) lab

SWAS stands for safe water releaser, SAFAL stands for safe minimal aluminum and STAR stands for safe thermite cracker.

These crackers are 15-20 percent cheaper than the conventional ones.

STAR eliminates usage of Potassium nitrate and sulphur.

SAFAL has less usage of aluminum as compared to commercial crackers.


The firecrackers have a unique property of releasing water vapour.

Jim Corbett National Park
- Jim Corbett National Park is the oldest national park in India and was established in 1936 as Hailey National Park to protect the endangered Bengal tiger.

- It is located in Nainital district and Pauri Garhwal district of Uttarakhand and was named after Jim Corbett, a well-known hunter and naturalist.

-The park was the first to come under the Project Tiger initiative.

- The park encompasses the Patli Dun valley formed by the Ramganga River. It protects parts of the Upper Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests and Himalayan subtropical pine forests ecoregions. It has a humid subtropical and highland climate.

-The core area forms the Jim Corbett National Park while the buffer contains reserve forests as well as the Sonanadi Wildlife Sanctuary

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Environment Education Awareness and Training (EEAT)


- It is a central sector scheme of the Ministry of Environment Forests and Climate Change continuing since 1983

- The basic objective to promote environmental awareness among all sections of the society and to mobilize people’s participation for conservation of environment.

- The objectives of the scheme are achieved through the implementation of four programmes namely National Green Corps, National Environment Awareness Campaign, Seminars/ Workshops and National Nature Camping Programme.

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About Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve (GNBR):
- The Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve encompassesa large part (some 85%) of the island of Great Nicobar.

- It incorporates two National parks of India, which were gazetted in 1992: the larger Campbell Bay National Park on the northern part of the island, and Galathea National Park in the southern interior

- The 6,381 inhabitants of the region derive a wide variety of biological resources from their environment such as medicinal plants and other non-timber forest products.

-In year 2013 it was included in the list of Man and Biosphere program of UNESCO to promote sustainable development based on local community effort and sound science.

- The Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve also incorporates territories and traditional lands of the indigenous Nicobarese and Shompen peoples.
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Under2 Coalition

• It is a coalition of a subnational governments that aims to achieve greenhouse gases emissions mitigation. It started as a memorandum of understanding, which was signed by twelve founding jurisdictions on May 19, 2015 in Sacramento, California.
• Although it was originally called the Under2 MOU, it became known as the Under2 Coalition in 2017. As of September 2017, the list of signatories has grown to 177 jurisdictions which combined encompasses 1.2 billion people and 39% of the world economy.
• The Under2 Coalition, a Memorandum of Understanding by subnational governments to reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions towards net-zero by 2050, is generating a unique precedent for bold climate leadership, with its member states and regions surpassing 200 in number.

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Gender Social Norms Index

The first Gender Social Norms Index was recently released by the UN Development Programmme (UNDP).

About the index

This index measures how social beliefs obstruct gender equality in areas like politics, work, and education, and contains data from 75 countries, covering over 80 percent of the world’s population.

The index found new clues to the invisible barriers women face in achieving equality – potentially forging a path forward to breaking through the so-called “glass ceiling”.

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CATEGORIES OF NBFCS

Asset Finance Company
• Principal business is financing physical assets such as automobiles, tractors, housing etc.

Investment Company
• Principal business is acquisition of securities.

Loan Company
• Principal business of providing loans

Infrastructure Finance Company
• NBFC that deploys at least 75% of its total assets in infrastructure loans

Infrastructure Debt Fund
• NBFC to facilitate the flow of long term debt into infrastructure projects

NBFC-MFI
• Provides Microfinance

●Growing Stock: It is the sum of all the trees growing/living in the forest or a specified part of it.

The total growing stock of wood in the country is estimated 5,915.76 million cubic metre (cum). The average growing stock per hectare in forest has been estimated as 55.69 cum.

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Energy Conservation Building Code (ECBC):
▪️Measures to improve building energy efficiency.
The first building code in India is ECBC and was launched in Feb, 2007 by Indian Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE).
▪️This code is applicable to new commercial buildings with a connected load above 100 kWh or a contract demand of over 120 kVamps.
▪️Prescribes minimum energy performance standards for the building envelope, heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) system.
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