Recent questions tagged environmental-law-and-policy

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|}...

​​​​​Choose the correct option regarding the Basel ConventionAlmost all the nations of the world assembled for the first time in the history to discuss and find out the s...

​​According to the Bio-Medical Waste Management Rules, $2016$, choose the correct option(s) from the followingBio-medical waste generated should be taken to a common bio-...

As per the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) guidelines 2004, the maximum size of microplastics is __________.$10 \mathrm{~mm}$$5 \mathrm{~mm}$$10 \mu \mathrm{m...

As per the Hazardous Waste $\text{(Management and Handling)}$ Rules, $2016$, of India, which is/are the characteristic(s) that must be exhibited by a waste to be classifi...

Which of the following is true according to the Central Pollution Control Board $\text{(CPCB)}$, Government of India's notification issued in the year $2009$?$24$ hour av...

Which of the following is NOT a designated waste category under Bio-medical Waste Management Rules, $2016$ of Government of India?YellowGreenRedBlue

Consider the following waste categoriesi) Domestic Hazardous Wasteii) Nuclear Wasteiii) Sludge from wet scrubbers of hazardous waste treatment processesiv) Chromium beari...

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 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...

Which one of the following statements correctly defines the concept of 'Extended Producer's Responsibility'?The responsibility of a producer for environmentally sound dis...

As per 'Hazardous and Other Wastes (Management and Transboundary Movement) Rules, $2016$ of Govt. of India, the import of hazardous and other wastes from any country shal...