GS Paper 3: Topics Covered: Conservation related issues. Context: The Government recently highlighted it’s stand at the COP 26 in the ongoing parliamentary session. It said, the announcement to intensify India’s climate action has the potential to bring investment and new technologies to support country’s transition to a clean and climate resilient economy. …
GS Paper 3: Topics covered: Environment Context: The commitment of recent Glasgow Climate Pact to strengthen our commitment to combat climate change by restricting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial levels More on the news India and CoP-26: At CoP26, India pledged to become a ‘net zero’ carbon emitter by 2070, and …
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Topics Covered: Infrastructure- energy. Ujala scheme What to study? For Prelims and Mains: Key features and significance of the scheme. Context: Fifth anniversary of the Centre`s zero subsidy `Unnat Jyoti by Affordable LEDs for All` (UJALA) scheme and `LED Street Lighting National Programme` (SLNP). Performance of the schemes: Under the SLNP initiative, in five years …
