Current Affairs Issues Listing - #2 (Environment)

News related to Climate change
1. Green Climate fund
2. International symposium on Antarctic Earth sciences
3. USA unveils clean power plan
4. Climate change – effect on Antarctic ice – sheet
5. CoP 21 draft : ‘Paris Agreement
6. International solar alliance (ISA)
7. EI – Nino and warm winter
8. Climate engineering solutions (geo-engineering or climate intervention)
9. India INDC
10. World Bank launches ambitious Climate Change Action Plan
11. CO2 levels hit record high – WMO
12. Earth Hour
13. Blue Carbon
14. Indian model to aid future IPCC reports
15. About Like – Minded Developing Countries (LMDC)
16. Climate special science express
17. Carbon tax
18. Green bond market
19. Meaning of green finance

News related to Biodiversity
1. IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) – Red list
2. ESZ around okhla bird sanctuary notified
3. Thane creek declared as flamingo sanctuary by Maharashtra government
4. Kikiki Huna (A genus of fairyfly, know from Hawaii, Costa Rica, and Trinidad world smallest insect)
5. Sikkim declared as Organic state: about organic farming
6. Depletion of Kudremukh National Park
7. Kasturiranjan report on western Ghats
8. National mission for a green India
9. Compensatory Afforestation Fund (CAF) Bill 2015
10. Agasthyamala biosphere reserve among 20 UNESCO world biosphere reserve
11. Vulnerability of tea industry with reference to the climate change
12. NGT asks centre & states to protect wetlands
13. Loss of polar bear habitat
14. Artificial breeding of Great Indian Bustard
15. First ever leopard census in India
16. Yellow – throated bulbul under Laboratory for the Conservation of Endangered Species
17. Doyand lake – Nagaland attract amur falcorn
18. Biodiversity database for Urban-India
19. South Indian states to constitute Inter-State Coordination Council to resolve forest-related issue
20. Diclofenac and Vulture extinction
21. India’s forest & tree cover increased by 5, 081 Sq km: ISFR 2015
22. Wildlife Rescue Centre
23. MoEFCC declares Wild pig as vermin for year in Uttarakhand
24. Asia Ministerial Conference on Tiger Conservation
25. South Asia Wildlife Enforcement Network
26. Global Tiger population increased for the first time in 100 years by 22%: WWF & GT
27. World’s first White Tiger Safari opens in Madhya Pradesh
28. India’s first Dolphin Community Reserve will be established in West Bengal
29. NWAF (National Wildlife Action Plan) Draft unvieled
30. Coconut Tree removed from Goa Preservation of Trees Act
31. Centre for World Natural Heritage Management and Training
32. School Nursery Yojana
33. Increasing no. of migrating birds in coringa sanctuary
34. Constitution on biodiversity finance initiative begins

Environmental Pollution/degradation
1. Bharat stage VI norms by 2020
2. Policy on promotion of city compost
3. IMD SAMAR
4. Air pollution in Indian cities
5. Flex fuel policy of Government to curb pollution worry automakers
6. New E-waste management Rules 2016
7. New plastic waste management Rules 2016
8. Solid waste management rules
9. Red alert on pollution declared in Beijing
10. National Air Quality Indices
11. Four Colour Classification Scheme for industries based on Pollution Index
12. Union Government notifies stricter standards for Coal Based Thermal Power Plants
13. Paper waste turned into non-toxic green Aerogel
14. Impact of use of firewood for cooking in rural areas
15. About Particulate Matter
16. Environmental impacts of fly-ash
17. Polluters pay model
18. E-vehicles to curb pollution

Indian government initiatives for environment conservation
1. The Public Liability Insurance (PLI) Act, 1991
2. National off-shore wind energy policy
3. NGT and its different orders for conservation of Environment
4. India and Sendai agreement for disaster reduction
5. Environmental crime in India
6. Indian long term ecological observatories (I-LTEO)
7. National renewable energy bill 2015
8. "Project Green Ports launched" by Ministry of Shipping
9. TSR Subramanian report
10. Traditional Knowledge Digital Library
11. India to join International Energy Agency – Ocean Energy Systems (IEA-OES)
12. Initiatives under Namami Gange programme

Miscellaneous News
1. Antarctica influencing weather in tropics
2. Deep sea planktons as effective carbon sinks
3. Ballast water bringing invasive species to Indian coasts: Scientists
4. Indian ocean warming and its consequences
5. Revised standards for CETPs to minimize water pollution
6. IPBES Report On Pollinator