Arctic Report Card 2023: Wildfires to melting sea ice, warmest summer on record had cascading impacts across Arctic Subject : Environment Section: Climate Change Context: The 2023 Arctic Report Card brought together 82 Arctic scientists from around the world to assess the Arctic’s vital signs, the changes underway and their effects on lives […]

    Is India doing enough to tackle climate change? Subject : Environment Section: Climate Change In the news: In a historic first, all 198 signatories to the 28th United Nations’ Conference of the Parties (COP28) adopted an agreement to “transition away” from “all fossil fuels” as opposed to only coal, as was agreed upon […]

    ‘India’s fastest’ solar-electric boat Barracuda launched Subject : Environment Section: Climate Change Solar-electric boat Barracuda: India has launched its fastest solar-electric boat named Barracuda (Named after the swift, long fish, Barracuda). It aims to advance India’s eco-friendly maritime transportation. Launched at- Navalt Solar and Electric Boats, located off Aroor in Alappuzha in Kerala. […]

    A quarter of freshwater fish species risk extinction by climate change: IUCN Subject : Environment Section: Climate change Context: The IUCN Red List assessment highlights the peril facing about a quarter of the world’s freshwater fish species due to climate change. Details: Out of nearly 15,000 species assessed, over 3,000 are at risk […]

    COP28 text silent on carbon markets Subject : Environment Section: Climate change System of Carbon Credits: An entity that does an activity that reduces emissions of greenhouse gases (or removals from the atmosphere) is given a ‘credit’ that can be bought by another entity that must reduce emissions — either by law or […]

    Unnatural causes claim more than 490 wild elephant lives in five years Subject : Environment Section: Species in news Context: A capacity-building workshop on ‘Minimising elephant mortalities on railway track’ for the officials of Indian Railways is being organised at the Dehradun-based Wildlife Institute of India (WII). Elephant population in India: India has […]

    The limitations of CCS and CDR and their grip on future climate Subject : Environment Section: Climate change What are Carbon Capture and storage (CCS) and Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR)? CCS refers to technologies that can capture carbon dioxide (CO₂) at a source of emissions before it is released into the atmosphere. These […]

    COP28 summit calls for ‘transition away’ from fossil fuels Subject : Environment Section: Int Conventions Context: COP28 in Dubai UAE adopted the ‘Dubai Consensus’ to transition away from fossil fuels. Dubai Consensus: It calls on Parties [to be] …Transitioning away from fossil fuels in energy systems, in a just, orderly and equitable manner, […]

    New Initiative to tackle debt & climate change launched by Kenya, Colombia, France Subject :Environment Section: Int conventions Context: At the COP28 in Dubai, UAE, leaders from Kenya, Colombia and France launched the Global Expert Review on Debt, Nature and Climate. Global Expert Review on Debt, Nature and Climate: First proposed at the […]