Subject: Environment Context: In the post COVID World, we should make efforts to ensure that the ‘G’ in GDP is not ‘Gross’ but ‘Green’. Concept: Green GDP is a term used for expressing GDP after adjusting for environment degradations. Green GDP is an attempt to measure the growth of an economy by subtracting the costs […]

Subject : Environment Context : SC asks Centre to ensure Delhi – NCR is smog free. Concept : Smog = smoke + fog (smoky fog) caused by the burning of large amounts of coal, vehicular emission and industrial fumes (Primary pollutants). Smog contains soot particulates like smoke, sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and other components. At […]

Subject : Environment Context : The National Board for Wildlife (NBWL) has cleared a plan for conserving vultures. Saliently, the drugs that are used to treat cattle and known to poison vultures will be banned by the Drugs Controller General of India. Concept : Diclofenac, a drug used to treat cattle, was linked to kidney […]

Subject : Enironment Context :  IPBES, have warned that future pandemics will emerge more often, they’ll spread more rapidly, do more damage to the world and kill more people than COVID-19, unless significant measures are taken. Concept : The report notes that COVID-19 is at least the sixth pandemic to have taken place in the […]

Subject : Environment Context : The United States formally exits from the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change which is a global deal to take collective actions to reduce consequences of global warming. Concept : Even though USA announced its exit earlier in 2017, formal withdrawal could technically happen only a day after the US […]