ALL environmental conventions and protocols-3 environment current affairs for upsc 2018 part 6

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environment current affairs series 5 for upsc ias uppsc mppsc bpsc upsc 2018
ENVIRONMENT CURRENT
AFFAIRS SERIES 5
 
 
TIMELINE OR CHRONOLOGY OF
International and national organisations,
PROTOCOLS, CONVENTIONS
FOR ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE
 
Latest Environment Current Affairs 2017 to 2018 for UPSC Exams, Bank Exams, Civil Services, SSC and other Competitive Exams. Latest developments in Environment and Climate Change 2017 to 2018  all important national updates in Environment events for the year 2017 important for 2018 upsc cse prelims exam
Prelims – General issues on Environmental Ecology, Bio-diversity, and Climate Change
Declaration was held in Rio-de-Janerio in Brazil in the year 1992.
Hence it is termed as Rio-Declaration and attended by over 150 countries. Hence, it isalso well known as ―Earth Summit.
Rio Declaration– a statement of broad principles to guide nationalconduct on environmental protection and development.
Agenda-21, a massive document containing a detailed action-plan for sustainable development.
Legally Non-Binding Principles of Forestry.
Convention on Climate Change and
Convention on Biodiversity.
(UNFCCC), 1992
Kyoto Protocol, Paris Agreement are a part of the UNFCCC
Convention on Biological Diversity, 1992
The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to CBD
The Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing
U.N. Convention on Desertification, 1994
1992 U.N. Conference on Environment and Development.
2006 was declared “International Year of Deserts and Desertification
Kyoto protocol
ROTTERDAM CONVENTION, 1998
World Summit on Sustainable Development (2002)
It is also known as Rio +10
2010: MASSIVE OIL POLLUTION IN GULF OF MEXICO

UN Conference on Sustainable Development (2012)
PARIS AGREEMENT 2016
The Paris Agreement still emphasizes the principle of “Common but Differentiated Responsibility”—the acknowledgement that different nations have different capacities and duties to climate action—it does not provide a specific division between developed and developing nations.

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