Environment Questions & Answers for UPSC

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greeds,” – Mahatma Gandhiji. Environment has become one of the focal points in discussions and debate across the globe. The significance of ‘Environment’ as a UPSC topic is also relatively bigger as questions surrounding climate change, ecology, biodiversity are seeing an upward trend in the civil services exam question papers.

This segment covers all your queries w.r.t environment, ecology, biodiversity, climate change and more. Not only will you find answers to a wide range of questions; you would also be able to align your UPSC preparation with these questions.

Benefits of Environment Questions for IAS Exam

The IAS Exam aspirants can get the following benefits while going through the below-mentioned environment questions:

  • It fits all – Questions from a minor issue to an issue that has a global relevance are covered.
  • Doesn’t Discriminate – None of the doubts of the aspirants have been neglected. All doubts that are related to the UPSC examination or are related to the basic knowledge of environment have been answered by UPSC experts.
  • Helps in Prelims, Mains GS 3 and even essay papers – These answers would solve various doubts w.r.t environment-related topics. Hence, these will come handy in all stages of examination.
  • Apart from IAS Exam, these questions can be useful for other government exams as well.
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was established on 21 March 1994. The United Nations Framework Convention on...
The purpose of the World Heritage Convention is to protect and preserve the world's natural and cultural heritage considered to be of Outstanding...
The World Heritage Convention was adopted in November 1970 at a general conference of UNESCO. The purpose of the World Heritage Convention is to...
The 7 World Heritage Sites, also known as the Seven Wonders of the Modern World are as follows: Christ the Redeemer, Brazil Machu Picchu, Peru...
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is funded through the contributions of its member states. ...
The following trees are found in equatorial forests: Mahogany Ebony Ivory wood Dye wood Cinchona Rosewood. The equatorial forest...
The equatorial forests are known as evergreen forests because they dont shed their leaves at once in a particular season and look green...
Bunding, also called a bund wall, is a constructed retaining wall around storage "where potentially polluting substances are handled, processed...
Humid tropics are the climatic regions where mean monthly temperatures are consistently high and exceed 18 C throughout the year, and where...
The UNCCD is the sole legally binding international agreement linking environment and development to sustainable land management. The United...
As per the United Nations Convention for Combating Desertification, desertification is not the natural expansion of existing deserts but the...
Desertification is a form of land degradation in which biological productivity usi lost either through natural process or by human activities....
The following organizations are helping in combating desertification:   United Nations Convention for Combating Desertification Food and...
About 25% of the world's land has been degraded as per many environmental organizations. Land degradation is a process in which the value of the...
Eco-Sensitive Zones (ESZs) are areas in India notified by the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC), Government of India...
The following roads are prohibited in eco-sensitive zones: Commercial coal mining Saw mills Polluting industries Commercial forestry...
Tiger reserves help tigers in providing a safe habitat for tigers to thrive and protect their population. Tiger reserves are a crucial ecosystem...
The Tiger Task Force is a task force set up by the Prime Minister of India to strengthen the conservation of Tigers in the country. It was set up...
The Project Tiger ensures that there is a viable population of tigers in their natural habitats and are protected from extinction and preserving...
The state with the highest number of tigers is Madhya Pradesh at about 526 as per the latest counting. It is also the state with the highest...