Current Affairs Questions

Consider the following statements:

1. Recently, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) confirmed that Verkhoyansk, a Siberian town, experienced a temperature of 38⁰ C on 20^th June, 2020, the highest temperature ever recorded in the Arctic region.
2. On 6^th February, 2020, at the Esperanza station in Argentina - a part of the Antarctic region – the highest temperature of 18.3°C was recorded.
3. The Arctic region is warming at the same rate as the rest of the world, mainly because of human-made greenhouse gas emissions.

Which of the above statement(s) is/are true?

Consider the following statements:

1. Recently, India voted against a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) draft resolution that linked climate change to security.
2. The resolution was co-sponsored by Ireland and Niger. It was first proposed by Germany in 2020.
3. India said that the resolution was an attempt to shift climate talks from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to the Security Council and a step backward for collective action on the issue.

Which of the above statement(s) is/are true?

Consider the following statements:

1. Recently, the Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) 2022 report was launched on the sidelines of the 26^th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
2. Germanwatch, the NewClimate Institute and the Climate Action Network publish the Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI).
3. The CCPI assesses countries’ performance in two categories.

Which of the above statement(s) is/are true?

Consider the following statements:

1. On 26^th October, 2021, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) released the ‘Emissions Gap Report 2021: The Heat Is On’.
2. Emissions gap is the difference between the low levels of emissions that the world needs to drop to, compared with the projected level of emissions based on countries’ current emission reduction commitments.
3. According to the report, global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions increased by 5.4 percent in 2020.

Which of the above statement(s) is/are true?

Consider the following statements:

1. Recently, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) released the Greenhouse Gas Bulletin.
2. According to the study, the amount of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached a record low last year.
3. Roughly half of the CO2 emitted by human activities today remains in the atmosphere. The other half is taken up by oceans and land ecosystems.

Which of the above statement(s) is/are true?

Consider the following statements:

1. Recently, the World Health Organization (WHO) released new air quality guidelines - Global Air Quality Guidelines (AQGs).
2. Redefining the threshold of safe air, this is the first revision after the last updation in 2010.
3. The guidelines cover six pollutants - particulate matter 2.5 (PM2.5), PM 10, ozone (O3), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), sulfur dioxide (SO2) and carbon monoxide (CO).

Which of the above statement(s) is/are true?

Consider the following statements:

1. A report on ‘Renewables Integration in India 2021’ was jointly launched by NITI Aayog & International Energy Agency (IEA).
2. India is the second largest energy-consuming country in the world.
3. Per capita electricity consumption across 28 Indian States and 8 Union Territories is still around a third of the world average.

Which of the above statement(s) is/are true?

Consider the following statements:

1. Antarctica recently recorded the highest temperature of 17.5 degrees Celsius.
2. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO)is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with 193 Member States and Territories.
3. A large high-pressure system over the area created föhn conditions which led to the local warming.

Which of the above statements is/are true?

Consider the following statements:

1. The first draft of Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework released recently by the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) aims to guide actions worldwide through 2030 to preserve and protect nature and its essential services to people.
2. The framework will be presented for consideration at the fourteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the CBD (COP-14), to be held in China in October 2021.
3. One of the 21 key targets of the framework includes nature-based contributions to global climate change mitigation efforts of least 10 GtCO₂e per year.

Which of the above statement(s) is/are true?

Consider the following statements:

1. Every year, International Tiger Day is celebrated on 30^th July.
2. The day marks the anniversary of the agreement of Saint Petersburg Tiger Summit held in Russia in 2010.
3. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List has classified the tiger as ‘Endangered.’

Which of the above statement(s) is/are true?