Purse Seine Fishing: Certain coastal states had imposed a ban on purse seine fishing. But the central government has criticized the move and said it is unjustified. A purse seine is made of a long wall of netting framed with floating and leadline and having purse rings hanging from the lower edge of the gear, […]
Category: Environment Current Affairs
Tentative List Of UNESCO World Heritage Sites
Tentative List Of UNESCO World Heritage Sites: Three heritage sites were added to the tentative list of UNESCO World Heritage sites namely; the Sun Temple at Modhera and Vadnagar town from Gujarat and rock-cut relief sculptures of Unakoti of Tripura. According to UNESCO, A Tentative List is an inventory of those properties which each nation […]
Environmental-Social-Governance
Environmental-Social-Governance: Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs, an autonomous institution under the aegis of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India recently launched a programme to create ‘impact leaders’ in the areas of Environmental-Social-Governance (ESG). Environmental-Social-Governance is a term that has been coined to refer to specific data designed to be used by investors for […]
Oran land
Oran land: Residents from around 40 villages of Jaisalmer, Rajasthan have walked 225 kilometers to protect community-conserved sacred spaces known as ‘orans’. Currently, the biodiversity hotspots are classified as wastelands. The current categorization is causing a loss of biodiversity and is affecting the livelihood of the locals in the area, as huge chunks of land […]
Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework
Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework: The 15th Conference of Parties (COP15) to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) adopted the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) on December 19, 2022. Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF): The framework has 23 targets that the world needs to achieve by 2030. The countries will monitor and report every five […]
Carbon Markets
Carbon Markets: The Energy Conservation (Amendments) Bill, 2022, passed by the Rajya Sabha recently, has several significant features. It will foster a carbon market in India, through the creation of a National emissions trading system (National ETS). Article 6 of the Paris Agreement provides for the use of international carbon markets by countries to fulfil […]
Bullock’s Heart Tree : Cost-Effective Bio-Insecticide
Bullock’s Heart Tree : Cost-Effective Bio-Insecticide A Research intern at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) recently won the prize for developing a cost-effective bio-insecticide from the leaves of bullock’s heart tree (Annona reticulata), popularly known as Ramphal. Bullock heart tree’s extracts have traditionally been used to cure conditions including dysentery […]
E20 Fuel : Soon To Be Launched
E-20 Fuel: Soon To Be Launched Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister has recently said that India will soon launch E-20 fuel with 20% blending of ethanol. The E20 fuel is a twenty percent blend of Ethanol and eighty percent of fossil-based fuel. The introduction of E20 fuel has the motive of reducing the reliance […]
Red List Of Threatened Species : Update
Red List Of Threatened Species : Update White-cheeked Dancing Frog, Andaman Smoothhound shark and Yellow Himalayan Fritillary are among 29 new species assessed in India that are under threat, as per the IUCN Red List unveiled during the COP15 biodiversity conference in Montreal (Canada) The International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List of Threatened […]
Methane Emissions
Methane Emissions: A study has been published titled- “Wetland emission and atmospheric sink changes explain methane growth in 2020’, which states that low nitrogen oxide pollution and warming wetlands likely drove global methane emissions to record high levels in 2020. Findings: Global methane emissions reached roughly 15 parts per billion (ppb) in 2020 from 9.9 […]
