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ENVIRONMENT - March 2017

Mar 2017

Dec 17, 2018

Global Response to Climate Change

As many as 195 countries adopted a set of guidelines, 'the Paris Rulebook', for implementing the 2015 Paris Agreement to strengthen the global response to climate change.
The rulebook was adopted after two weeks of negotiations to resolve major differences between developed, developing and a coalition of least developed countries at the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Dec 11, 2018

Surviving Great Barrier Reef Corals

Scientists have observed that the Great Barrier Reef corals that survived bleaching in 2016 were more resistant to a second marine heat wave the following year.
A study outlines how a process called "ecological memory" emerged in the northernmost reefs during back-to-back heat waves in 2016 and 2017.

Dec 04, 2018

Motor Vehicles Act Amended

In a bid to promote bio-fuel run vehicles, the government issued a notification amending the Central Motor Vehicle Rules, 1989 to include dual-fuel vehicles for agricultural tractors and construction equipment vehicles.
Agriculture tractors, power tillers, construction equipment vehicles and combine harvesters can now be converted to run on bio-fuels.
According to the notification, dual-fuel with primary fuel as diesel and secondary fuel as CNG, Bio-CNG and LNG has been added in section 115 A of the Act.
According to the section, every agricultural tractor and construction equipment vehicle manufactured shall be maintained and used by its owner in such condition that visible and gaseous pollutants emitted by them comply with the standards prescribed in this rule.

Dec 03, 2018

Delhi's New Draft Policy on E-Vehicles

The Delhi government has put its new draft policy on electric vehicles which sets an ambitious target of electrifying 25% of all new vehicles registered by 2023 in public domain for suggestions. Electric vehicles can help because they have zero tailpipe emissions and can reduce the dangerous nitrogen-oxide and particulate matter in the air. They also offer quieter and smoother rides. The new draft policy's focus on electrifying two-wheelers, besides auto rickshaws, cabs, goods carriers and public buses, could address a big problem.

Nov 29, 2018

EU Aims to Be Climate Neutral by 2050

The European Union says it is aiming to become the first major economy to go climate neutral by 2050.

Under the plan, emissions of greenhouse gases after that date would have to be offset by planting trees or by burying the gases underground.

Scientists say that net-zero emissions by 2050 are needed to have a fighting chance of keeping global temperatures under 1.5C this century.

The EU says the move will also cut premature air pollution deaths by 40%.

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