REPEATED THEMES ENVIRONMENT for UPSC PRELIMS
(2013-2022)
Important Topics for Prelims 2023
Most Repeated ENVIRONMENT Topics (2013-2022)
Repeated Theme:
• Repeated Topic (Year)
General Environmental Ecology: (2022)
• Glossary of the terms like, Ecosystem (2015)
• Legume Intensification (2020)
• Carbon Sequestration (2017)
• Biological Oxygen Demand (2017)
• Vertical Farming and Crop
• Diversification (2020)
• Blue Carbon (2021)
Sustainable Development Initiatives
• Hydrogen enriched CNG (H-CNG) (2019)
• The partnership action for Green Economy (2018)
• Bio-remediation and its Environmental advantages (2017)
Bio-char and its uses (2020)
• Algae based Bio-fuels (2017)
• Sustainable Development Goals and their Objectives. (2016)
• Bio-carbon fund initiative for sustainable forest landscapes (2015)
• 'Earth hour' and its objectives (2014)
• Green Climate Fund (2015)
• Climate Smart Agriculture and Climate Smart Village (2021)
• Environmental Impact Assessment-(EIA) (2021)
• R2 code of Practices (2021)
• Polar code (2022)
• Miyawaki method (2022)
Bio rock technology (2022)
• Polyethylene terephthalate (2022)
Laws, Regulatory Bodies, Policies and Conferences for Environmentand its
Protection at the National Level:
• The Wildlife Protection Act, 1972 and schedules (2020)
• National Policy on Bio-Fuels (2020)
• The Environmental Protection Act, 1986 and its provisions (2019)
• Central Ground Water Authority (2020)
• Indian Forest Act, 1927. (2019)
• Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006) (2019)
• Animal Welfare Board of India (2014)
• National Green Tribunal (2018)
• Central Pollution Control Board (2018)
• Green India Mission (2016)
• National Tiger Conservation Authority (2014)
• National Ganga River Basin Authority (2014)
• Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 and its Provisions (2022)
Laws, Regulatory Bodies, Policies, Conferences for Environment and its Protection at the International Level:
• The Ramsar Convention (2019)
• The Wetlands (Conservation and Management) Rules, 2010 (2019)
• Global Alliance on Climate-Smart Agriculture (GACSA) (2018)
• 'Momentum for Change-Climate Neutral Now' initiative (2018)
• Trade related analysis of flora and fauna in commerce (TRAFFIC) (2017)
• Global Climate Alliance (2017)
• Un-Habitat in United Nations Programme (2017)
• Climate and Clean Air coalition-(CCAC) (2017)
• UN-REDD+ Programme (2016)
• 'Agenda-21' initiative (2016)
• Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (2015)
Birdlife International (2015) IUCN and Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) (2015)
• Rio+20 Conference (2015)
• Organisations like UNEP, OECD, ADB, World
Bank and their Environmental initiatives
(2015)
New York Declaration on Forests (2021)
• Common Carbon Metric (2021)
• Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 and its Provisions(2022)
• UNFCCC (2022)
Environmental Pollution and Control:
• Benzene Pollution (2020)
• Pollutants released by Coal-fired Electric Power Plants (2020)
• Social Cost of Carbon (2020)
• Microbeads and Environmental concerns (2019)
Gases released due to burning of Bio-mass residues (2019)
• Gases released through agriculture activities,soil, cattle rearing, Poultry industry etc. (2019)
• Consequences of heavy mining in river beads (2018)
• Air Quality Index and gases considered to measure them. (2016,2022)
• Carbon Cycle and causative factors adding Carbon (2014)
• Coal bed Methane and Shale Gas (2014)
• Acid rain and causes. (2013,2022)
• Greenwashing (2022)
• Nitrogen-fixing plants(2022)
Wildlife Sanctuaries, Protected Areas, Bio- sphere reserves, National Parks and Eco- Sensitive Zones:
• Pakhui Wildlife Sanctuary (2018)
• Protected area around Cauvery basin (2020)
.Protected areas well known for conservation of Indian Swamp Deer (2020)
• National Parks in Temperate Alpine Zone (2019)
• Agasthyamala Bio-sphere reserve (2019)
• Eco-sensitive zones (2014)
• Desert National Park (2020)
• Critical wildlife habitat and habitat rights (2018)
Bio-Diversity and Conservation :
• Lichens and Ecological succession (2014)
• Various food chains in Eco-system (2013)
Musk Deer's natural Habitat (2020)
• Natural habitat of Asiatic lion, One-horned Rhinoceros (2019)
• Unique fauna like Ceylon frogmouth, Gray chinned Civet etc (2020)
• Indian Elephants and their characteristic features (2020)
• Certain species are well known for (2022)
