Paris Agreement, UNEP - Current Affairs Questions and Answers

ANSWER: 182

Explanation:
The Paris Agreement has entered into force on Nov 4, 2016.

• The agreement involves GHG emissions mitigation, adaptation and finance.
• Paris Agreement’s entry into force comes after countries representing 55 percent of the world’s emissions joined the deal.
• As per Nov 2016, 192 states have signed the agreement.
• The EU is also a signatory to the agreement.
• 97 of these parties have ratified or accepted the agreement.
• Notable among these are the leading GHG emitters China, the US and India.
• The Paris Agreement is inked within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
• Language of the agreement was negotiated by 195 nations at the 21st COP of the UNFCC in Paris.
• It was adopted by consensus on 12th December 2015.
• It was launched for the signatories on 22nd April 2016 in NYC.
• The EU ratified the agreement in Oct 2016.
• The agreement has come into force due to ratification by enough countries.
• The prime aim of the protocol is to limit global average temperature to well below 2 degree C above pre-industrial levels.
• COP has established a global goal on adaptation of enhancing adaptive capacity, strengthening resilience and lowering vulnerability to climate change.
• Averting, minimising and coping with losses due to climate change is another mitigation based goal.

• Technology Transfer
• Capacity Building
• Financing
• Implementation
• Review

ANSWER: 29th July

Explanation:
UNEP (United Nations Environmental Programme) celebrated International Tiger’s Day on 29th July 2016.

• Of 100000 tigers roaming the nation a century ago only 3200 are left behind, according to a WWF 2014 report.
• Between 2000 and 2014, authorities across Asia seized parts of as many as 1590 tigers killed for traditional medicine, according to wildlife trade monitoring network Traffic.
• WWF has warned that poaching and habitat loss could bring extinction for the Asian big cats.
• India is home to 50 percent of the world’s tiger population with 1706 tigers.
• Of 9 species, 3 are extinct while 6 exist in the world today. The tigers that are not extinct include Siberian Tigers, Bengal tigers, Indochinese tigers, Malayan and Sumatran tigers and South China tigers.
• 3 extinct species are Bali, Caspian and Java tigers.

ANSWER: Only 2

Explanation:
UNEP was never awarded with Nobel peace prize.