One Solar One Grid Subject – Environment Context – One Sun, One World, One Grid for seamless energy Concept – On the second day of COP26, an initiative by India and the United Kingdom to tap solar energy and have it travel seamlessly across borders was announced. It includes a group of Governments […]

    2014 New York Declaration of Forests Subject – Environment Context – World leaders pledge to save forests at COP 26 Concept – Leaders at the COP26 global climate conference in Glasgow have pledged to stop deforestation by the end of the decade and slash emissions of the greenhouse gas, methane, to help slow […]

    Climate Change from past to contemporary Subject – Environment Context – CoP26: Humanity is compressing millions of years of natural change into just a few centuries Concept – According to IPCC report, global temperature (currently 1.1℃ above a pre-industrial baseline) is higher than at any time in at least the past 120,000 or […]

    Nuclear power and the environment Subject – Environment Context – Nuclear energy helped prevent 72 billion tonnes CO2 emissions since 1970 Concept – Nuclear reactors worldwide have helped avoid the emission of 72 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide since 1970, compared to coal-fired electricity generation. Reduced electricity demand resulting from the novel coronavirus […]

    Enhanced weathering Subject – Environment Context – An international team, which studied a global temperature rise that occurred 56 million years ago, has found that it took about 20,000 to 50,000 years for the climate to stabilise after the rise of five to eight degrees Celsius. Concept – About 56 million years ago, […]

    Global Methane Pledge Subject – Environment Context –The Global Methane Pledge was launched at the ongoing UN COP26 climate conference in Glasgow Concept – The Global Methane Pledge was launched at the ongoing UN COP26 climate conference in Glasgow. So far, over 90 countries have signed this pledge, which is an effort led […]

    ‘Bird of the Year’ award in New Zealand Subject – Environment Context – ‘Bird of the Year’ award has created controversy in New Zealand Concept – Pekapeka-tou-roa, a native New Zealand bat, has won the country’s annual Bird of The Year award, hosted by Forest and Bird, an independent conservation organisation. The title, […]