Conservation
- What are Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs)? Highlight their significance in India.
- What are Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)? Highlighting their significance, discuss the challenges in extending the MPA network in the country.
- What is zero budget natural farming (ZBNF)? Discuss its significance and challenges vis-a-vis traditional farming.
- Do you think there is a need to take account of Gross Environment Product (GEP) in the calculation of GDP? Also, bring out the issues in capturing GEP.
- Highlighting the achievements of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, discuss the reasons behind its success.
- Highlighting the need to create Eco-Sensitive Zones (ESZs) in India, discuss the associated issues. Also, mention the recent developments in this regard.
- Identifying the potential sites for the re-introduction of cheetahs in India, discuss its significance and mention the challenges associated with the exercise.
- Discuss the impact of wildfires on the ecosystem. Describe the significance of the UNEP’s Fire Ready Formula in dealing with the menace of wildfires.
- Why is biopiracy a cause of great concern to the existing traditional knowledge of the developing world? What steps have been taken by the government of India for protecting the existing traditional Indian knowledge?
Climate Change
- What are Marine Heat Waves (MHWs)? Discuss the reasons behind their occurrence and their impact on the Indian subcontinent.
- What are Urban Heat Islands? Identifying the reasons behind their creation, discuss the measures which can help counter them.
- Highlighting the causes of forest fires, bring out the measures to prevent their occurrence in India.
- What do you understand by the idea of climate reparations? Discuss the need to implement this idea in the current context. Also, highlight the challenges you foresee in its implementation.
- Research suggests that the Global South will suffer the most from climate change, and South Asia will be one of the hardest-hit regions. Analyse.
- How is water scarcity different from water stress? Highlighting the issue of water stress in India, suggest measures to address it.
- What is carbon inequality? Discuss the need to address it and the measures that can be taken in this regard.
- Stating the significance of Coastal Vulnerability Index, enumerate the initiatives taken to enhance resilience against coastal vulnerability in India.
- How does climate change exacerbate the challenges that India faces in eliminating hunger and malnutrition? Discuss in the context of India’s commitment to achieve zero hunger by 2030.
Pollution & Degradation
- What is the impact of rising plastic pollution on the environment? Discuss the recent measures taken globally to tackle the menace of plastic pollution.
- Elaborate on how soil pollution affects food security, human health and the environment.
- Highlighting the impacts of land degradation and desertification, enumerate the initiatives taken at the national and international levels to combat them.
- What is radioactive waste? Discuss its various harmful effects and suggest ways to manage it.
- Discuss the environmental and socio-economic impacts of invasive alien species.
- The ecological cost of excessive and indiscriminate sand mining far outweighs its economic benefits. Discuss in context of the importance of sustainable sand mining.
- It is predicted that the Arctic could be ice-free in summer by 2040. State its possible impact on oceans. Also, discuss how India will be affected in this scenario.
- Evaluate the outcome of the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP). How can Mission Life reinvigorate the NCAP in addressing the issue of air pollution?
- Discuss the linkages between growing urbanisation and noise pollution in India. Describe the effects of noise pollution on human health.
Environmental Impact Assessment
- What is Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)? Highlight its objectives and describe the different stages involved in the EIA process.
- Discuss the environmental and economic impacts of sand and dust storms.
- Ensuring healthy wetlands is critical for climate mitigation and adaptation as well as sustaining biodiversity and human health. Discuss. What are the mechanisms that exist in India to achieve this?
- One Water’ approach is the key to combat water and urban-ecological challenges. Discuss.