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Environment and Ecology Current Affairs 2024





January 2023:
  • Ozone Hole Recovery
  • Cloud Forest Assets
  • The Wildlife (Protection) Amendment Act, 2022
  • Forest (Conservation) Rules, 2022
  • Human-Wildlife Conflict
  • Fly Ash Utilization
  • Samudrayaan Mission
  • Joshimath Land Subsidence
  • Large Dams in India
  • International Container Transhipment Port (ICTP)
  • News in Shorts
    • Urban Forestry and Urban Greening in Dryland Report
    • Sustainable Acquaculture in Mangrove Ecosystem (SAIME) Initiative
    • 1st All India Annual States' Ministers Conference
    • Nature Risk Profile (NRP)
    • Wildlife Conservation Bond(WCB) 
    • Asian WaterBird Census (AWC)
    • Species in News
    • Neelakurinji (Strobilanthes Kunthiana)
    • Ram Setu
    • Munroe Thuruthu Island
    • Dark Sky Reserve
    • Uranium Contamination in Groundwater
    • Lakes in News
    • Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano
    • Standards and Labeling Program (SLP) of Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE)
    • Virtual Power Plants (VPPs) 
    • Disadter Management Plan (DMP) for Power Sector
    • Global Overturning Circulation (GOC) 
    • New Plateau Type Discovered from Maharashtra
February 2023:
  • E-Waste (Management) Amendment Rules, 2023
  • Ethanol Blending
  • Mangroves Ecosystem
  • Aquaculture
  • Water Sensitive Cities
  • Sea Level Rise
  • Glacial Lakes Outburst Floods (GLOFs)
  • First Synchronized Vulture Survey
  • Global Assessment of Soil Carbon in Grasslands
  • Organic Farming Certification 
  • Nano Urea
  • News in Shorts
    • Draft Geo-heritage Sites and Geo-relics (Preservation and Maintenance) Bill
    • Fifth International Marine Protected Areas Congress
    • Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) Framework
    • River Cities Alliance (RCA)
    • Red Sanders
    • Cheetah Translocation
    • Pangolin
    • Ladakh's First Biodiversity Haritage Site
    • Shinku La Tunnel
    • Dickinsonia
    • PMN (Polymetallic Nodules) exploration
    • PFAS or Forever Chemicals
    • Bisphenol A (BPA) Chemical
    • SDG Agrifood Accelerator Programme
    • Climate Smart Varieties of Wheat
    • World Sustainable Development Summit 2023
    • Earth's Inner Core
    • Heat Dome
    • Mammatus Clouds
March 2023:
  • Biodiversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction Treaty (United Nation High Seas Treaty)
  • UN 2023 Water Conference
  • AR6 Synthesis Report: Climate Change 2023
  • Climate Justice
  • Draft Carbon Credits Trading Scheme (CCTS)
  • Global Greenhouse Gas Monitoring Infrastructure (GGMI)
  • Right to Repair
  • Electric Vehicles (EVs) Policy
  • Forest Rights in India 
  • Landslides Atlas of India
  • Glacier Management
  • News in Shorts
    • CO2 Emissions in 2022 Report
    • Biofuels
    • Bio Resources for Commercial Purposes
    • Asiatic Lions
    • Captive Wild Animals
    • Greater Panna Landscape Council (GPLC) 
    • Forest Certification
    • Heat Index (HI) Reading
    • Striving for Clean Air: Air Pollution and Public Health in South Asia report
    • Liquid Tree/LIQUID 3
    • Plastic Rocks
    • Desalination Plants
    • South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA)
April 2023:
  • Project Tiger
  • Project Elephant
  • Circular Economy
  • Groundwater
  • News in Shorts
    • State Energy Efficiency Index ( SEEI) 2021-22
    • First Census of Water Bodies
    • PRAYAG Platform
    • Eco-Sensitive Zones (ESZ)
    • Prosopis Chilensis
    • Environment Statistics 2023
    • Agrifood Systems
    • Open-source Seeds Movement (OSSM)
    • Fly-Ash
    • Carbon Market Reforms
    • Mission 50k - EV4ECO
    • Sea Surface Temperature (SST)
    • Upward Lightening or Upward Flashes 
    • Animal Birth Control Rules, 2023
May 2023:
  • Decarbonisation of Indian Economy
    • Climate Finance for Decarbonisation 
    • Technology Adoption for Decarbonisation
    • Carbon Market to Aid Decarbonisation
    • Biofuel Opportunity in Decarbonisation
    • Green Hydrogen Opportunity for Decarbonisation
  • Gas - based Economy 
  • News in Shorts
    • Central Asian flyway (CAF)
    • Cheetah Project
    • Tiger Translocation
    • Wildlife Protection (WLP) Act, 1972
    • Sea Butterfly
    • Gekko Mizoramensis 
    • Baobabs
    • Global Financial Innovation Network (GFIN)
    • UNEP report on Plastic Pollution
    • One-stop Centres for Zero Waste 
    • Debt for Climate Swaps
    • Climate Change and Inflation
    • 1.5°C Target
    • Arctic Amplification
    • River-Cities Alliance (RCA)
    • Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme
    • International Aviation (CORSIA)
    • Aurora 
    • Sun Halo
    • World's 2nd Deepest Blue Hole in Mexico
    • Palghat Gap
    • Amrit and Moonga Blocks in Arabian Sea
June 2023:
  • Glaciers in Hindukush Himalaya
  • Energy Transition
  • Coal Based Thermal Power Plants Emission Norms Compliance
  • Disaster Management in India
    • Urban Floods
    • Fires
  • Cloud Seeding 
  • News in Shorts
    • UN's High Seas Treaty
    • Bonn Climate Meet
    • Paris Finance Meet
    • Global Environment Facility (GEF) approves Global Biodiversity Framework Fund (GBFF)
    • World Environment Day (WED) 2023
    • Climate Change and Food Choices 
    • Subsidies and Climate Change 
    • Draft Green Credit Programme (GCP) Implementation Rules 2023
    • Short-Lived Halogens (SLH)
    • LEED Rating System
    • National Water Awards 
    • Desiccation-Tolerant Vascular (DT) Plants
    • Protosterol Biota 
    • Ban on Drugs Harful for Vultures 
    • River Sand Mjning
    • Marine Noise Pollution
    • Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) and EL-NiNO
    • Cyclones in Arabian Sea
    • Earthquake in Jammu and Kashmir and Laddakh
    • Groundwater Extraction Titled Earth's Spin
July 2023:
  • Biological Diversity (Amendment) Bill, 2023
  • Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers' Rights (PPVFR)
  • Tiger Conservation in India
    • Status of Tiger Report
    • Management Effectiveness Evaluation (MEE) of Tiger Reserves
  • Forest Conservation (Amendment) Bill, 2023
  • Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP)
  • Plastic Pollution
  • Blue Economy
  • Resource Efficiency Circular Economy Industry Coalition (RECEIC)
  • IMO Strategy on Reduction of Greenhouse (GHG) Emissions from Ships 2023
  • Wind Energy
  • News in Shorts
    • Crop Residue Management Guidelines
    • Carbon Credit Trading Scheme (CCTS)
    • India Climate Energy Dashboard (ICED) 3.0
    • WMO Ozone and Ultraviolet (UV) Bulletin
    • Climate Change Impact on Animal Communication
    • Flora and Fauna Database
    • Gambusia affinis (G affinis)
    • Cryptobiosis
    • Bahu Balli Cattle Fence (Bamboo Fence)
    • Salsola Oppositifolia Desfontania 
    • Holobionts
    • Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) 2023
    • Scheme for Expansion and Modernization of Fire Services in the States
    • Earthquake Swarm
    • Shelf Cloud
    • Kaas Plateau
    • Ureilite
    • Anthropocene Epoch
August 2023:
  • Global biodiversity Framework Fund (GBFF)
  • Unregulated Tourism in the Indian Himalayan Region (IHR)
  • Water Trading
  • Coastal Aquaculture Authority (Amendment) Act, 2023
  • Agroforestry
  • Compressed Bio-Gas (CBG)
  • Tidal Energy
  • News in Shorts
    • Urban River Management Plan (URMPs)
    • Flood Watch Mobile Application
    • Minamata Convention on Mercury
    • Plastic Overshoot Day Report
    • Earth Overshoot Day
    • Belen Declaration
    • Debt-for-Nature Swap
    • Export Policy of Red Sanders Wood
    • Dholpur-Karauli Tiger Reserve (DKTR)
    • IUCN's Integrated Tiger Habitat Conservation Programme (ITHCP) or Tiger Program
    • State of India's Birds 2023 Report
    • Report on 'Inclusive Conservation Initiative (ICI)'
    • Tharosaurus Indicus
    • Methylotuvimicrobium Buryatense 5GB1C
    • Turtles and Tortoises
    • Fujiwhara Effect
September 2023:
  • Namami Gange Programme (NGP) 
  • IPBES Assessment Report on Inclusive Alien Species and their Control
  • UNESCO World Heritage Sites
  • Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO)
  • News in Shorts
    • Breakthrough Agenda Report (2023)
    • UNDP Launches National Carbon Registry 
    • Technical Report on the Global Stocktake
    • Swachh Vayu Sarvekshan
    • Building Materials and The Climate 
    • Central Empowered Committee (CEC)
    • Global Trends on Land Degradation and Drought
    • Ecocide 
    • Extreme Water Stress 
    • Atlantification 
    • Artificial Reef (AR)
    • Electrified Flex Fuel Vehicle (FFV)
    • Marine Light Pollution
    • Delhi Framework on Farmers' Rights
    • Norman Borlaug Field Award for Field Research and Application
    • Walking Leaves 
    • Kylinxia Zhangi
    • Mithun
    • Pterygotrigla Intermedica 
    • Red Fire Ant
    • Sago
    • Agumbe Forest
    • Siang River
    • Omega Blocking 
    • Kilauea Volcano
    • Earthquake in Morocco
    • Aarogya Maitri Cube under Project BHISHM
October 2023:
  • Global Infrastructure Resilience
  • Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOF)
  • News in Shorts
    • Coral Reef Breakthrough
    • Sustainable Finance 
    • Net Zero Roadmap
    • Climate Impact, loss & damage in Sundarbans
    • Cutting Methane from Fossil Fuels
    • Decarbonisation of the Cement Industry
    • India running out of Phosphorus
    • Conocarpus Trees
    • Amazon River Basin
    • Petroleum Coke or Pet Coke
    • Unified Registration Portal for GOBARdhan 
    • Polyethylene Terephthalate degrading enzyme (PET46)
    • Manis Mysteria (Newly discovered species of pangolin)
    • Damselfly species
    • Fish Mint
    • Dancing Frogs
    • Kamlang Tiger Reserve
    • 15-minute cities
November 2023:
  • Air pollution in Urban Areas
    • Stubble Burning
    • Cloud Seeding
  • Unified Nations Forum on Forests
  • Climate Change and Children
  • Green Buildings
  • National Efficient Cooking Programme (NECP) 
  • Organic Farming
  • News in Shorts
    • Climate equality
    • Adaptation Gap Report 2023
    • Paris Agreement Synthesis Report 2023
    • State of Climate Services Report 2023
    • Ice Melt in West Antarctica
    • Global Landscape of Climate Finance 2023 Report
    • World's Largest Solar Facilities
    • Draft Guidelines to Prevent Greenwashing 
    • UNCCD Data Dashboard
    • Sand and Dust Storms (SDS) 
    • Red Sanders Removed from RST
    • Tropical Timber
    • Noa-Dihing Music Frog
    • Himalayas' vulnerability to landslides
    • Historic Flooding Swamps Somalia
    • Cyclone Midhili
    • Seismic/Earthquake Swarms
December 2023:
  • COP28
    • India at COP 28
    • Initiatives
      • Global Green Credit Initiative (GGCI)
      • Loss and Damage 
      • First Global Stocktake 
  • Indian Traditional Practices & Climate Change 
  • National Circular Economy Roadmap for Reduction of Plastic Waste in India
  • Global Cooling Watch Report -2023
  • Hindu Kush Himalayas 
  • Climate Engineering
  • Environmental Cost of War 
  • Ground Water in India
  • Global Drought Snapshot 2023
  • News in Shorts
    • India's Maiden Winter Arctic Expedition
    • India Surpassed Montreal Protocol Targets
    • KMGBF Completes One Year 
    • Updated Red List by IUCN
    • Report on Conservation of Migratory Species
    • International Year of Camelids
    • Impatiens Karuppusamy
    • Namdapha Flying Squirrel (Biswamoyopterus Biswasi)
    • Diel Vertical Migration (DVM)
    • Tropicalisation 
    • Global Finance Architecture for Sustainable Growth
    • State of Finance for Nature 2023 Report
    • Global Climate 2011-2020 Report
    • Compressed Bio-Gas Blending Obligation
    • Loan to India for MSW Management by ADB 
    • Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems (MHEWS)
    • Ennore Oil Spill
    • Rat Hole Mining Method 
    • Mullaperiyar Dam
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