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Question 1 of 5
1. Question
1 pointsConsider the following statements.
- India is home to nearly 75 percent of the global tiger population and has already fulfilled its resolve of doubling tiger numbers, made at St. Petersburg in 2010.
- As per the Latest Tiger census in India, out of five tiger landscapes, Western Ghats landscape has the highest number of Tigers.
Which of the above statements is/are correct?
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Solution: a)
The country now has an estimated 2967 tigers as per the latest census. With this number, India is home to nearly 75 percent of the global tiger population and has already fulfilled its resolve of doubling tiger numbers, made at St. Petersburg in 2010, well ahead of the target year of 2022.
India’s five tiger landscapes are: Shivalik Hills and Gangetic Plains, Central Indian Landscape and Eastern Ghats, Western Ghats, North-East Hills and Brahmaputra Plains, and the Sundarbans. Central India and Eastern Ghats have the highest number of tigers.
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Solution: a)
The country now has an estimated 2967 tigers as per the latest census. With this number, India is home to nearly 75 percent of the global tiger population and has already fulfilled its resolve of doubling tiger numbers, made at St. Petersburg in 2010, well ahead of the target year of 2022.
India’s five tiger landscapes are: Shivalik Hills and Gangetic Plains, Central Indian Landscape and Eastern Ghats, Western Ghats, North-East Hills and Brahmaputra Plains, and the Sundarbans. Central India and Eastern Ghats have the highest number of tigers.
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Question 2 of 5
2. Question
1 pointsThe Global Environment Facility (GEF) provides funding to assist developing countries in meeting the objectives of international environmental conventions. The GEF serves as a “financial mechanism” to which of these conventions?
- Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
- Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)
- UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)
- Minamata Convention on Mercury
Select the correct answer code:
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Solution: d)
The GEF provides funding to assist developing countries in meeting the objectives of international environmental conventions. The GEF serves as a “financial mechanism” to five conventions: Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), and Minamata Convention on Mercury.
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Solution: d)
The GEF provides funding to assist developing countries in meeting the objectives of international environmental conventions. The GEF serves as a “financial mechanism” to five conventions: Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), and Minamata Convention on Mercury.
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Question 3 of 5
3. Question
1 pointsSunda strait connects
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Solution: a)
The Sunda Strait is the strait between the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra. It connects the Java Sea to the Indian Ocean.
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Solution: a)
The Sunda Strait is the strait between the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra. It connects the Java Sea to the Indian Ocean.
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Question 4 of 5
4. Question
1 pointsWhich of the following countries are the members of Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN)?
- Vietnam
- Thailand
- Malaysia
- Papua New Guinea
- Laos
Select the correct answer code:
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Solution: c)
Members of ASEAN are Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia, Cambodia, Laos, Singapore and Brunei. Observers are East Timor and Papua New Guinea.
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Members of ASEAN are Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia, Cambodia, Laos, Singapore and Brunei. Observers are East Timor and Papua New Guinea.
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1 pointsMARPOL Convention, sometimes seen in news is related to
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Solution: c)
There has been a huge increase in the use of open-loop scrubbers in ships, even as a debate about their viability in mitigating sulphur emissions from ships has also escalated.
The International Maritime Organisation’s (IMO) adopted the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL) Annex VI in 2008 that regulates the prevention of air pollution from ships and prohibits deliberate emissions of ozone-depleting substances such as sulphur oxides and nitrous oxides.
Following the adoption, exhaust scrubbers have become one of the most preferred ways of reducing sulphur exhaust as they ‘scrub’ pollutants out of emissions.
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Solution: c)
There has been a huge increase in the use of open-loop scrubbers in ships, even as a debate about their viability in mitigating sulphur emissions from ships has also escalated.
The International Maritime Organisation’s (IMO) adopted the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL) Annex VI in 2008 that regulates the prevention of air pollution from ships and prohibits deliberate emissions of ozone-depleting substances such as sulphur oxides and nitrous oxides.
Following the adoption, exhaust scrubbers have become one of the most preferred ways of reducing sulphur exhaust as they ‘scrub’ pollutants out of emissions.
