Daily Current Affair Quiz: 24th April 2020
1. Which of the following statements are true?
1. Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) focuses on the ‘beneficiary pays principle’ and therefore provides an opportunity to put a price on previously un-priced ecosystem services.
2. REDD+ aims to compensate the local people for preserving the loss of forests or their degradation.
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
Ans: c
Justification:
- Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) focuses on the ‘beneficiary pays principle’ and therefore provides an opportunity to put a price on previously un-priced ecosystem services.
- Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation Plus (REDD+): It aims to compensate the local people for preserving the loss of forests or their degradation.
- Ecological Fiscal Transfer, is a type of conditional environmental payments which involves conditional payments from higher levels of a country’s government (e.g. national) to lower levels (e.g. state or local).
- EFTs distribute a share of intergovernmental fiscal transfers and revenue sharing schemes according to ecological indicators such as protected areas or watershed management areas etc. These conservation areas thus become a source of income for the receiving governments.
2. The Emissions Gap Report is published by
(a) UNEP
(b) WFF
(c) IUCN
(d) Greenpeace
Ans: a
Justification:
- UN Environment Programme (UNEP) launched its tenth edition of Emissions Gap Report 2019
- It is an annual science-based assessment of the gap between countries pledge on greenhouse gas emissions reductions and the reduction required to deliver global temperature increase below 2 degree Celsius by the end of this century.
3. Which of the following statements are true?
1. Biomass co-firing stands for adding biomass as a partial substitute fuel in high efficiency coal boilers.
2. Co-firing is a low-cost option to convert biomass to electricity, in an efficient and clean way, and to reduce GHG emissions of the power plant.
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
Ans: c
Justification:
- Biomass co-firing stands for adding biomass as a partial substitute fuel in high efficiency coal boilers. Co-firing is a low-cost option to convert biomass to electricity, in an efficient and clean way, and to reduce GHG emissions of the power plant.
- Existing policy from Ministry of Power recommends co-firing up to 5-10% biomass in existing coal thermal power units.
4. Which of the following statement/s is/are true.
1. Confederation of Indian industry is a non-government, not-for-profit, industry led and industry-managed organization.
2. Clean Industry report was prepared by a Task Force led by both NITI Aayog and the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
Ans: c
Justification:
- NITI Aayog released the report on Clean Industry prepared by a Task Force led by both NITI Aayog and the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).
- NITI Aayog along with CII launched the joint initiative “Clean Air, Better Life” in 2016 with an objective to address the issue of air pollution in Delhi National Capital Region (NCR) with active participation of the Government agencies, industries and academia, research organization and civil society.
5. ‘Global Migration Report 2020 is published by
(a) IMF
(b) UNEP
(c) UNDP
(d) None of the above
Ans: d
Justification:
- ‘Global Migration Report 2020’ was published by the International Organisation for Migration.
