QUIZ – 2020: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 26 October 2020

Solution: d)

The Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG) is a FATF style regional inter-governmental (international) body, the members of which are committed to implement international standards against money laundering (AML), the financing of terrorism (CTF) and financing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

APG was founded in 1997 in Bangkok, Thailand, and currently consists of 41 member jurisdictions in the Asia-Pacific region and a number of observer jurisdictions and international/regional observer organisations.

Jurisdictions that join the APG, either as members or as observers, commit to the Recommendations of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).

The APG conducts mutual evaluations of its members to determine whether they comply, or to what extent they comply, with their obligations to implement the global anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist financing standards.

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Solution: c)

FATF-style regional bodies:

• Asia/Pacific Group on combating money laundering (APG)
• Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF)
• Committee of Experts on the Evaluation of Anti-Money Laundering Measures and the Financing of Terrorism of the Council of Europe (MONEYVAL)
• Eurasian Group (EAG)
• Eastern and South African Anti Money Laundering Group (ESAAMLG)
• Financial Action Task Force on Latin America (GAFILAT)
• Inter-Governmental Action Group against Money Laundering in West Africa (GIABA)
• Middle East & North Africa Financial Action Task Force (MENAFATF)
• Task Force on Money Laundering in Central Africa (GABAC)

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Solution: b)

About the India Energy Modeling Forum:

• Jointly launched by NITI Aayog and United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under the US–India Strategic Energy Partnership.
• Composition: The forum would include knowledge partners, data agencies and concerned government ministries.

Energy modeling or energy system modeling is the process of building computer models of energy systems in order to analyze them.

The Energy Modelling Forum (EMF) in USA was established in 1976 at Stanford University to connect leading modelling experts and decision makers from government, industry, universities, and other research organizations.

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Solution: c)

The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is an independent intergovernmental body established by States to strengthen the science-policy interface for biodiversity and ecosystem services for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, long-term human well-being and sustainable development. It was established in Panama City, on 21 April 2012 by 94 Governments.  It is not a United Nations body.  However, at the request of the IPBES Plenary and with the authorization of the UNEP Governing Council in 2013, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) provides secretariat services to IPBES.

The governing body of IPBES – made up of the representatives of IPBES member States – usually meets once per year.
Observers: Any State not yet a member of IPBES; the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and other biodiversity-related conventions; related UN bodies; as well as many other relevant organizations and agencies.

It is intended to serve a similar role to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

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Solution: b)

On September 3, 2019 Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal and Thailand became the first four countries in the World Health Organization’s southeast Asia region to have successfully controlled hepatitis B.

The virus is said to be controlled when the disease prevalence is reduced to less than 1% among children less than five years of age.

Despite the introduction of hepatitis B vaccine in the Universal Immunisation Programme in 2002 and scaling-up nationwide in 2011, about one million people in India become chronically infected with the virus every year.