General Awareness

ENVIRONMENT - December 2018

Dec 2018

Jan 12, 2019

Clean Air Plan

Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Dr Harsh Vardhan launched the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) aiming to reduce toxic particulate matter by 2024, taking 2017 as the base year.
The Environment Ministry has announced a budget of Rs 300 crore for two years to tackle air pollution across 102 cities, identified by the Central Pollution Control Board.

Jan 10, 2019

NDMC to Rent Out Electric Scooters

After the success of smart bikes, the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) plans to extend the rental concept to e-scooters for last mile connectivity in its area by end of September.
The project will be implemented in two phases in NDMC's jurisdiction. In the first phase, 500 e-scooters will be procured and provided on rent at 50 stations while the remaining 500 will be made available in second phase by December 2019.

Jan 06, 2019

Asia's First Fossil Dioscorea Yam Leaf

A quaint fossilised leaf is one of the most recent finds throwing light on India's past.
The leaf fossil is the first of Dioscorea yams from Asia and hints at a Gondwanan origin to these plants, claim scientists.
The fossil was found in the Gurha lignite mine in Bikaner in western Rajasthan.
The new find has been named Dioscorea eocenicus: the first ever Dioscorea fossil recorded from Asia.
Currently, species of Dioscorea in India are found in the humid, tropical forests of the country.
Based on this, the team infers that such tropical forests must have flourished in this part of Rajasthan during early Eocene.
Other fossil plants observed in the mine also suggest this historical climate in the area, which is now dry and consists of desert vegetation.

Dec 30, 2018

Single-use Plastic Free Flight

The amount of single-use plastic on a passenger airline is enough to contribute significantly to global pollution. Portuguese airline Hi Fly decided to bring about a change by introducing single-use plastic free flight.
The flight took off on Wednesday from Lisbon to Natale, Brazil, without a single piece of single-use plastic on board. There were no plastic cups, plastic silverware, plastic cocktail stirrer, and plastic food containers.
This was only a test run for the company hoping to completely ban single-use plastic from all its flights in 2019.
Other airlines such as Air New Zealand and Alaska Airlines are also following similar approaches to reduce their plastic usage onboard.

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.

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