Recent questions and answers in Environmental Management and Sustainable Development

Which ONE of the following principles is directly related to environmental compensation?Intergenerational equity principlePrecautionary principleSubsidiarity principlePol...

As per the United Nations General Assembly resolution adopted in $2015$ "Transforming Our World: The $2030$ Agenda for Sustainable Development", the number of sustainable...

Which ONE of the following options CORRECTLY matches the ISO series with their usages in environmental management system (EMS) given in the table?$$\begin{array}{|ll|ll|}...

Which of the following options is/are directly associated with the steps involved in carrying out life cycle assessment (LCA)?Determination of functional unitDefining goa...

An agricultural land can support energy crops yield to produce $7000$ $\text{L}$ of bioethanol per hectare and energy content of bioethanol is $21 \mathrm{MJ} / \mathrm{L...

​​​​Correctly match the sustainable development goal (SDG) with its theme$$\begin{array}{|l|l|l|l|} \hline & \textbf{SDG} & & \textbf{Theme} \\ \hline i. & \text{SDG }6...

​​​​Methane hydrates have special crystal structure of water, where methane gas molecules are trapped. Choose the correct option(s) from the followingMethane hydrates exi...

As per the United Nations agenda for sustainable development adopted in September $2015$, the number of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are _________ and the propose...

Based on the ISO $14040$ methodology for Life Cycle Assessment, match the terms with the descriptions in the table.TermDescription$\text{(a)}$ Goal and Scope$\text{(i)}$ ...

In a region, total annual consumption of gasoline is 30.6 million tons. The land required for growing sugarcane to produce enough bioethanol to replace the gasoline compl...

Place the following international conventions/conferences/protocols/declarations in the chronological order $\text{(oldest to latest)}$ of their happeningi) United Nation...

Read the following statements with reference to the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Changei) Each signatory (country) has common and equal responsibility.ii) Clean development ...

Read the following statementsI. In environmental laws, the polluter pays principle is enacted to make the polluter responsible for paying for the damage done to the natur...

Read the following statementsI. The goal of Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) is to assess the environmental impact of products from a system perspective and to identify possible...

For the following major Indian environmental actsi) Environmental Protection Actii) Water Act (Prevention and Control of Pollution)iii) Air Act (Prevention and Control of...

The following block diagram highlights the typical phases of the life cycle of a product. In the figure, '$P$', '$Q$', and '$R$' represent various possible scopes of anal...

The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development was held in $1992$ in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. During this conference, several environmental management princi...

Which of the following international multilateral agreements $\text{(conventions, protocols)}$ from Column I match with the entries in Column II?Column IColumn IIRamsar C...

In context of ecosystems, which one of the following is NOT a correct statement?The growth of an organism such as a plant may be dependent on a number of different factor...

The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF\&CC), Govt. of India has published the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) draft Notification $2020$, intende...