Current Affairs (Environment)

News related to Climate change

1. Green Climate fund
2. International symposium on Antarctic Earth sciences
3. USA unveils clean power plan
4. Climate change – effect on Antarctic ice – sheet
5. CoP 21 draft : ‘Paris Agreement
6. International solar alliance (ISA)
7. Climate engineering solutions (geo-engineering or climate intervention)
8. India INDC
9. World Bank launches ambitious Climate Change Action Plan
10. CO2 levels hit record high – WMO
11. Earth Hour
12. Blue Carbon
13. Indian model to aid future IPCC reports
14. About Like – Minded Developing Countries (LMDC)
15. Climate special science express
16. Carbon tax
17. Green bond market

News related to Biodiversity

1. IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) – Red list

2. ESZ around okhla bird sanctuary notified

3. Thane creek declared as flamingo sanctuary by Maharashtra government

4. Kikiki Huna (A genus of fairyfly, know from Hawaii, Costa Rica, and Trinidad world smallest insect)

5. Sikkim declared as Organic state: about organic farming

6. Depletion of Kudremukh National Park

7. Kasturiranjan report on western Ghats

8. National mission for a green India

9. Compensatory Afforestation Fund (CAF) Bill 2015

10. Agasthyamala biosphere reserve among 20 UNESCO world biosphere reserve

11. Vulnerability of tea industry with reference to the climate change

12. NGT asks centre & states to protect wetlands

13. Loss of polar bear habitat

14. Artificial breeding of Great Indian Bustard

15. First ever leopard census in India

16. Yellow – throated bulbul under Laboratory for the Conservation of Endangered Species

17. Doyand lake – Nagaland attract amur falcorn

18. Biodiversity database for Urban-India

19. South Indian states to constitute Inter-State Coordination Council to resolve forest-related issue

20. Diclofenac and Vulture extinction

21. India’s forest & tree cover increased by 5, 081 Sq km: ISFR 2015

22. Wildlife Rescue Centre

23. MoEFCC declares Wild pig as vermin for year in Uttarakhand

24. Asia Ministerial Conference on Tiger Conservation

25. South Asia Wildlife Enforcement Network

26. Global Tiger population increased for the first time in 100 years by 22%: WWF & GT

27. World’s first White Tiger Safari opens in Madhya Pradesh

28. India’s first Dolphin Community Reserve will be established in West Bengal

29. NWAF (National Wildlife Action Plan) Draft unvieled

30. Coconut Tree removed from Goa Preservation of Trees Act

31. Centre for World Natural Heritage Management and Training

32. School Nursery Yojana

33. Increasing no. of migrating birds in coringa sanctuary

34. Constitution on biodiversity finance initiative begins

• Environmental Pollution/degradation

1. Bharat stage VI norms by 2020

2. Policy on promotion of city compost

3. IMD SAMAR

4. Air pollution in Indian cities

5. Flex fuel policy of Government to curb pollution worry automakers

6. New E-waste management Rules 2016

7. New plastic waste management Rules 2016

8. Solid waste management rules

9. Red alert on pollution declared in Beijing

10. National Air Quality Indices

11. Four Colour Classification Scheme for industries based on Pollution Index

12. Union Government notifies stricter standards for Coal Based Thermal Power Plants

13. Paper waste turned into non-toxic green Aerogel

14. Impact of use of firewood for cooking in rural areas

15. About Particulate Matter

16. Environmental impacts of fly-ash

17. Polluters pay model

18. E-vehicles to curb pollution