6/2/24

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A West African nation with democratic system, now on verge of loosing it

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Senegal

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World's longest running communist armed rebellion

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Phillipines

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rivers of Himalaya Hindukush region

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Asian water tower

1. Syr Darya and Amu Darya towards the now-dead Aral Sea

2. The Tarim toward the Taklamakan

3. The Indus, Ganga and Brahmaputra towards the Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal

4. The Yellow river towards the Gulf of Bohai

5. The Yangtze towards the East China Sea

6. The Mekong towards the South China Sea

7. The Chindwin, Salween and Irrawaddy towards the Andaman Sea

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Mountains cover _____ per cent of Earth’s land surface. hold ________per cent of the world’s global biodiversity hotspots.

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22% of land

50% of the world’s global biodiversity hotspots.

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Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing. Which country recently joined? why?

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Nagoya Protocol, an offshoot of the CBD

Cameroon

Prunus Africana, a plant endemic to Cameroon, is used to make drugs for prostate cancer.

bush mango is medicinal

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Saubhagya scheme

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Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana (Saubhagya scheme) claimed to have achieved near-universal electrification in India.

however, rural households receive subsidised, unreliable electricity from debt-ridden discoms. [against WB's definition of energy access]

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transmission and distribution losses in the power sector were about ____

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15.8 per cent in 2022-23

NITI Aayog’s India Climate and Energy Dashboard.

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Global Reporting Initiative

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climate change, human rights and corruption.

proposed GRI Biodiversity Standard

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malaria free countries

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total 43 [WHO]

2023- Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Belize

2024- Cabo/ Cape Verde

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Cape Verde - location

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_________region accounted for 94 percent of all Malaria cases and 96 percent of all Malaria related deaths.

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Africa

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E-2025 initiative

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WHO’s E-2025 initiative focuses on 25 countries targeting Malaria elimination by 2025.

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Jhulsa Rog

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potato- cold burn leaves

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cold wave, as defined by the IMD

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minimum temperature in the plains is 4 degrees Celsius or less or when it is less than 10°C and 4.5°C-6.4°C below normal.

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Lantana was introduced in the country___

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as an ornamental plant by the British in the 1800s

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allelopathy

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chemicals released to discourage growth of native plants

eg lantana

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haritaki, bahera , amla and mahua are

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non-timber forest produces (NTFPs)

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can evolution be undone

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Flowering plant undoes 100 million years of evolution, shows signs of self-pollination

Parisian pansies are smaller, produce less nectar than 20-30 years ago

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R21/Matrix-M

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malaria vaccine

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The world breached ____degrees Celsius of warming for the first time in 2023. Reason?

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2

El Nino and long-term human-caused

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Cyclone Freddy

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Malawi

The cyclone that lived longest: Freddy broke all kinds of records

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accumulated cyclone energy

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(ACE) combines cyclone intensity and duration.

ACE has little to do with the damage on the coast.

Biporjoy’s ACE is 23.6 square knots

second spot behind Cyclone Kyaar [img] in 2019

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National parks, tiger reserves of Bihar

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Valmiki TR NP only

The state government is waiting to obtain NTCA approval for declaring Kaimur Wildlife Sanctuary as the state’s second tiger reserve after VTR.

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marib

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Nagarjunsagar-Srisailam Tiger Reserve (NSTR), located in _____

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Nallamala Forest of Andhra Pradesh.

NSTR is one of the largest

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____ has power to lodge criminal cases under the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972

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Forest Department, the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB), the Customs, and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

Chargesheets can be filed directly by the Forest Department.

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Thrips

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In India, Thrips Parvispinus might have dominated or even replaced the native chilli thrips known as scirtothrips dorsalis.

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Seabed Curtain project

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construct a 100km-long curtain attached to the bed of the Amundsen Sea [W Antarctica]

in front of ice sheets to protect them from being eroded by warm sea water

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Typbar

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world's first vegetarian or non-bovine typhoid vaccine.

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Pangolakha- location, lake, rivers

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tri-junction of Sikkim, Bhutan and West Bengal.

Lake Tsongmo

rivers like Rangpo and Jaldhaka

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HYBRIT technology

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Fossil free steel

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Industry sector that is largest contributor to GHG emissions

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coal-based DRI sector, which is mostly small-scale, is the largest contributor to GHG emissions (almost 51 per cent), even more than blast furnace-basic oxygen furnace (BF-BOF) routes, as of 2020-21.

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Global Wildfire Information System.

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Joint initiative of the Group on Earth Observation (GEO) and the Copernicus Work Programs

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World government Sumit

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Established in 2013, name- 2015

annual event held in Dubai, United Arab Emirate

India, Türkiye, and Qatar have been declared the guests of honor at the 2024 World Governments Summit.

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Global green credit initiative

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India UAE launched GGCI @ COP28

Not just carbon credit. (Can include water conservation, land degradation etc.)

Unlike the carbon markets, which are more focused at industry and corporations, green credit programme can benefit individuals and communities as well.

Domestic trading- notified by governments.

In India - notified through Green Credit Rules, 2023 by the MoEFCC under the EPA 1986.

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Vostro accounts

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special rupee accounts in Indian banks

18-22 countries

Indian traders make payments in rupees for imports, which will be credited to Vostro accounts of the corresponding banks of the partner countries, while Indian exporters will be paid from the balances in the designated Vostro accounts.

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Can central banks of other countries buy t bills?

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The central banks of Nepal, Bhutan and Malaysia also hold Government of India securities and Treasury bills.

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Onion origin

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Mediterranean to Iran region maybe

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Brumation

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Dormancy in reptiles

🐊 Keep just their snout above water.

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three wild cats found in Ladakh

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Eurasian lynx, snow leopard and Pallas's cat

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India’s largest species of bats

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Indian flying fox

keystone sp

Initially, it was under sch V [Vermin of WPA 72

Now under Sch 2

Hunting for meat and medicine and probable threats like the felling of roost trees

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Global Species Action Plan

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IUCN, CBD [Nairobi]

Call for countries' action plans before COP16 CBD in 2024 to implement Kunming Montreal protocol COP15 2023

Nonbinding

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Kyasanur

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Kyasanur Forest Disease (KFD), a tick-borne [from animals, humans], hemorrhagic fever in people from the Western Ghats states.

KFD RNA virus

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Harvesting season of areca nuts and cashew nuts in western ghats

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winters

prone to KBD

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Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)

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moves warm ocean water from the tropics to the northern Atlantic Ocean basin, could collapse between 2025 and 2095

may be the first of the 16 climate tipping elements to be breached

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In thermohaline circulation Indian ocean gets warm currents from_____ and cold currents from______

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Warm- Indonesian Throughflow (ITF) and the Agulhas Current,

cold currents- Somali Current and the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC).