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'Critical Wildlife Habitat ' as such areas of National Parks and Sanctuaries where it has been specifically and clearly established, case by case, on the basis of scientific and objective criteria, that such areas are required to be kept as inviolate for the purpose of wildlife conservation.

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Centre for Wetland Conservation and Management(CWCM):

● Established by: Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC).

● Purpose: To address specific research needs and knowledge gaps in conservation and management of wetlands.

● Part of: It has been established as a part of the National Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management(NCSCM), an institution under MoEFCC.

● Location: Chennai,Tamil Nadu

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Black Carbon
● It is a component of fine particulate matter of the size2.5 μm. It consists of pure carbon, which originates from the incomplete combustion of fossil fuels, coal, biofuel, biomass, wood, rubber etc. It is emitted in the form of soot.
● SOOT is an air borne mass of impure carbon particles resulting from the incomplete combustion of hydrocarbons. It originates from pyrolysis.

Brown Carbon
● Brown carbon is brown smoke released by the combustion of organic matter. It coexists with black carbon when released in the atmosphere.

Sources of brown carbon are:
● Breakdown products from biomass burning
● Tar materials from smouldering freres
● Coal combustion
● Combustion of fossil fuels and automobile exhaust
● Mixture of organic compounds emitted from soil
● Formed in the atmosphere from reactions of biogenic organic gases, given off
naturally by trees and other organisms, that condenses to form aerosol particles.

Blue Carbon
● It is the carbon captured by the world’s oceans and coastal ecosystems.
● This carbon is captured by living organisms in oceans is stored in the form of aquatic biomass.
● Blue carbon ecosystem act as the major sink for capturing atmospheric carbon and reducing warming effects.

Green Carbon
● It is the carbon captured into terrestrial plant biomass in photosynthesis and stored in
the plants and soil of natural ecosystems and is a vital part of the global carbon cycle.

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Net Zero Producers Forum

-The forum has been formed for the oil and gas producers to discuss how to support the implementation of Paris Agreement on Climate Change.

-aims to develop pragmatic net zero emission strategies.

Aim at
- Methane abatement
- advancing the circular carbon economy approach.
- the development of carbon capture and storage technologies.
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