ENVIRONMENT – Expected Questions

 ICESaT 2 – NASA’s recent satellite to measure the depth of ice sheet melting.

 SATAT – Sustainable Alternative Towards Affordable Transportation (SATAT)

 Affordable transportation alternative via compressed biogas

 Latest Forest Policy

 Additional Forest cover by 2030
 Carbon sink of 2.5 – 3 Billion tons of Carbon Dioxide equivalents
 Forest Fire Prevention and Management (FFPM)

 AIR QUALITY INDEX (AQI)

 Lancet Report (A Famous Medical Journal)
 16% of worldwide death caused due to air pollution
 Pollution Death contributors: Air (6.5 million) – Water (1.8 M) – Workplace
related (0.8 M) – Lead (0.5 M)

 COLOUR CODES about air quality:

 Green – the Best air
 Yellow
 Orange
 Red – the worst

 13 most polluted cities of the world are in India. List of most polluted cities of the
world:
 Delhi – Most polluted city in the world
 Greater Cairo
 Dhaka
 Mumbai
 Beijing

 Air Quality Warning System in India developed by:

 Indian Meteorological Dept.
 Indian Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting, Noida
 Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune

 5 Stadiums declared to be Plastic- Free (All the 5 SAI Stadiums):

 Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium
 Major Dhyan Chand Stadium
 Indira Gandhi Stadium Complex
 Dr. Karni Singh Shooting Range
 Dr. SPM Swimming Pool Complex

 Sikkim – 1st Indian state to ban all types of Plastic Bottles

 New Biosphere Reserve (11th) – Khangchendzonga (Sikkim)

 State Energy Efficiency Preparedness Index

 Prepared by Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) & Alliance for Energy
Efficient Economy (AEEE)
 Categorization of the States into: Forerunners, Achievers, Contenders &
Aspirants
 Forerunners: Andhra, Kerala, Maharashtra, Punjab & Rajasthan

 PAT Scheme – Perform, Achieve & Trade Scheme

 HAN- Hydroxyl Ammonium Nitrate

 Green Propellant developed by ISRO

 PARIVESH – An Environment clearance single window hub foe Environment,

Forest & Wildlife.

 First Inter State wind energy power project – Bhuj

 1st Biofuel powered flight between Dehradun and Delhi

 The biofuel used – A combination of Jatropha seeds and Aviation Turbine
Fuel

 NCCCM – For Water Contamination detection coz of Fluoride, Chromium VI & Iron

 Heavy Fuel Oil (HFO) – Dirtiest Fuel

 Atal Bahujal Yojana – To improve groundwater Management

 World Bank’s assistance for 5 years worth Rs. 6000 Cr.

 Brazzavile Declaration Signed – Paetland Conservation Treaty related to Congo

 ELECRAMA 2018 – Year on year target for Solar Energy Sector

 India’s Solar installed capacity (Feb 2018) – 20 Giga Watt (GW)
 Plan to increase this to 100 GW by 2021-22
 Kurnool Solar Plant – Andhra Pradesh
 Suryamitra Program
 ARUN (Atal Rooftop Solar User Navigator) – Recent Mobile App for Solar
panel and related services.

 Mutant Bacteria developed by Japan that eats Plastic – PET

 National Wind- Solar Hybrid Policy

 1st plant in Anantapur, Andhra

 ASITA (another name of Yamuna) – Yamuna River Front Development Program

 India’s first Insect Museum – Coimbatore
 Tagline: “Bugs are Kings”

 Biggest Solar Plant – Mirzapur, UP

 International Solar Alliance (ISA) – 121 member countries lying between Tropic of
Cancer and Capricon. Recent meeting held in Delhi.

 ‘Green Good Deed’ – People- oriented campaigns on Climate Change & Global
warming.
 By Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Mo EFCC)
 Using ‘Green Sainiks’

 Phumdi – Floating lab to monitor Manipur’s Loktak Lake.

 Dark Net and Golden Cresent – Related to Narco/Drug Terrorism

 Geographical Indication (GI) Tag – Latest one given to Alphonsa Mango

 1st GI Tag – Darjeeling Tea (2004)
 GI Ranking (based on no. of GI Tagged products) – Karnataka – Maharashtra
– Tamil Nadu

 Sikkim’s 1st airport – at Pakyong

 5th Highest airport of the country
 Leh Airport – the Highest

 1st Cyclone Warning Centre – Trivandrum

 1st C-Band Doppler Weather Radar System – Mangalore

 O-SMART – Ocean Services, Technology, Observations & Resources Modelling

 Sub projects for Fisheries, Shipping & Offshore industries along with
protection of oceans.
 Under Sustainable Development Goal 14

 Totten Glacier – Largest outlet of ice floating in Antarctica

 Oneer TM – Water Disinfection system developed by CSIR

 Device that identifies bacteria and viruses in the water
 Economic method for clean drinking water

 TITLI & LUBAN – Recent cyclonic storms at the Bay of Bengal & Arabian Sea

 Operation Madad – Assistance to the State administrations to undertake disaster

relief operations
 Launched on Aug 9th, 2018 – At the time of Kerala Floods
 Parker Solar Probe – NASA’s probe to study Sun’s Corona
 Named after the Astrophysicist Eugene Parker
 1st mission to be named after a living person.

 India’s first ever Thermal power battery plant – Amravati, Andhra

 Shale gas, Shale oil, coal bed methane – Unconventional Hydrocarbons

 1st Generation Biofuels – Starchy food, Sugarcane, Sweet Shorgum

 2nd Gen. Ethanol Bio- Refinery – Set in Baulsingha, Odisha

 Fuel from Rice Straw.

 PM awarded the Champion of the Earth Award by UN – For pledging to eliminate

single use plastics in India by 2022

 Permissible limit for CO inhalation – 4 mg/m3

Particulate Matter – 2.5 mg/m3
NO2 – 80 mg/m3
SO2 – 18 mg/m3

 Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) – Related to air pollution

 Tried in Delhi on a trial basis

 C. K Mishra Report – Pollution affecting the Taj Mahal

 Methanol – Cheapest fuel with highest no. of non-food sources

 Higher Octane
 Higher Flash Point
 Burns Cooler