India’s updated climate pledge to Paris Agreement Subject: Environment Section: Climate change Context: India’s updated climate pledge to the Paris Agreement received the Union Cabinet’s nod August 3, 2022. Concept: Paris Agreement The Paris Agreement is a global treaty wherein some 200 countries agreed to cooperate to reduce GHG emissions and rein in […]

    Eucalyptus, acacia and teak, not Sal: Why CAG is critical of Odisha’s afforestation efforts Subject: Environment Section: Conservation There was an ‘acute shortfall’ in achieving plantation targets in Odisha due to lack of coordination, working plan, improper selection of plantation sites and plant species Odisha’s forest cover was estimated to be 51,619 square […]

    Peace parks as a transboundary approach to conservation Subject :Environment Section :Biodiversity Conflicts over disputed borders, increasingly exacerbated by climate change, are putting some of the world’s key biodiversity hotspots at risk. Even in countries that have avoided border wars, a global campaign of fence building — aimed at keeping out human migrants […]

    Is India’s biodiversity getting exploited without benefits to communities? Subject :Environment Section : Biodiversity   Data on the website of the National Biodiversity Authority (NBA) shows that as much as 56.1 per cent of applications approved by the Authority under the access and benefit sharing regime since 2006 were between financial years 2020-2021 […]

    Principles of International Environmental Law Subject: Environment Section General Principles of Environmental Law Sovereignty and Responsibility Principle International environmental law has developed between two contradicting principles. First principle is that states’ have sovereign rights over their natural resources. Second, states should not damage to the environment. However, the concept of sovereignty is not […]

    E-Waste Subject: Environment New e-waste rules threaten jobs, collection network Electronic waste, or electronic goods that are past their shelf life, is largely handled by India’s vast informal sector. The environment ministry brought the E waste (Management) Rules, 2016, that introduced a system of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) compelling makers of electronic goods […]

    States fail to give Environment Ministry details on elephant reserves Subject :Environment Section : Biodiversity The Elephant Range States across India, have ignored an 18-month-old instruction from the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC), to furnish information on their Elephant Reserves. The MoEFCC had, on January 12, 2021, written to the […]