Environmental Quiz: Environmental Organisations | Nov 23,2020

The Indian Network on Climate Change Assessment (INCCA) was launched in October 2009 by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) in an effort to promote domestic research on climate change, and build on the country’s climate change expertise.
•INCCA is a network-based programme of the MoEF, which consists of over 120 institutions and over 250 scientists country wide is aimed at bringing in more science-based policy-making, based on measurements, monitoring and modeling.
•Reports prepared by the INCCA will form a part of India’s National Communication (Nat Com) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Source: Shankar

In pursuance of the implementation of the provisions of the Convention, India’s Initial National Communication (NATCOM) to the UNFCCC has been initiated in 2002 funded by the Global Environment Facility under its enabling activities programme through the United Nations Development Programme, New Delhi.
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: The Kyoto Protocol is made up of essential architecture that has been built and shaped over almost two decades of experience, hard work and political will. The beating heart of KP is made up of:
1. Reporting and verification procedures;
2. Flexible market-based mechanisms, which in turn have their own governance procedures; and
3. A compliance system.
The Kyoto Flexible Market Protocol mechanisms:
• Joint Implementation (JI)
• The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)
• Emission Trading
Source: Shankar

The GEF was established in 1991 by the World Bank in consultation with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), to provide funding to protect the global environment.
Source: GEF

The GEF’s governance, operational, financial and administrative oversight procedures are set out in the Instrument for the Establishment of the Restructured Global Environment Facility, which was adopted in 1994 and subsequently amended in 2002 (GEF Instrument). The GEF now has six focal areas:
•biological diversity;
•climate change;
•international waters;
•land degradation, primarily desertification and deforestation;
•ozone layer depletion; and
•persistent organic pollutants.
Source: GEF

The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution, in December 1988, on the subject and endorsed the UNEP/ WMO proposal for the setting up of the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
It was established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in 1988 to provide the governments of the world with a clear scientific view of what is happening to the world’s climate.
Source: Shankar

Three UN Agencies – United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) – have collaborated in the establishment of the UN-REDD programme, a multi-donor trust fund that allows donors to pool resources and provide funding with the aim of significantly reducing global emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries.
Source: Shankar

The International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) aims to protect world plant resources, including cultivated and wild plants by preventing the introduction and spread of plant pests and promoting the appropriate measures for their control.
•The convention provides the mechanisms to develop the International Standards for Phyto-sanitary Measures (ISPMs), and to help countries to implement the ISPMs and the other obligations under the IPPC, by facilitating the national capacity development, national reporting and dispute settlement.

•The Secretariat of the IPPC is hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
Source: UN CBD

: India is one of the mega-diverse countries in the world and home to nearly eight percent of the world’s total recorded species of plants and animals.
•Across the country, people, communities and governments have played an outstanding and innovative role in conserving India’s rich heritage.
•Government of India, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in association with UNDP India, therefore, started the India Biodiversity Awards in 2012, to recognise excellence in biodiversity governance across the country.
•The first round of Awards was launched in 2012 during India’s Presidency of the Eleventh Meeting of Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity.
•The award selection process is conducted in partnership with the National Biodiversity Authority of India.
Source: The Hindu

The inspiration came from Chi-Chi: a giant panda that had arrived at the London Zoo in the year 1961, when WWF was being created. Aware of the need for a strong, recognizable symbol that would overcome all language barriers, WWF’s founders agreed that the big, furry animal with her appealing, black-patched eyes would make an excellent logo.

Source: Shankar