Rajesh bhadauria

dear friends, who are preparing for civil services (IAS & PCS) are advised to see the power point presentation of fifth assessment report of IPCC to find the valuable data and information related with climate change and its effects, as these facts are asked in prelims, mains and also in interviews, all the three levels of the CSE
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RAJESH BHADAURIA

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FOR CIVIL SERVICES, ASPIRANTS from hindu news
Giant leap for big cat
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• India now has 70 per cent of the tiger population in the world with the latest assessment estimating 2,226 big cats, up 30 per cent from 1,706 in 2010, according to preliminary estimates in
• “Status of Tigers in India, 2014.”
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Western Ghats Landscape complex holds world’s single largest population
The largest increase is recorded in the Western Ghats Landscape complex — Kerala, Karnataka, Goa and Tamil Nadu — with 776 tigers (up from 402 in 2006). The Mudumalai-Bandipur-Nagarahole-Wayanad complex holds the world’s single largest tiger population currently estimated at over 570 tigers (in 11,000 sq.km of habitat), the report says. Goa now has a persistent tiger presence with three to five animals. However, the Sunderbans did not report an increase in the numbers because of a low prey base and other factors. Odisha reported a fall in number. Releasing a summary of figures of the third round of the country-level tiger assessment, Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Prakash Javadekar said here on Tuesday that the increase in numbers was a great achievement and a result of the combined efforts of passionate officers. With so many tigers, India could send them to countries where there was demand for them. Mr. Javadekar said 9,753 camera traps had been set up and over 100 people were trained to use them. The latest round of assessment used state-of-the art technology of double sampling, using camera traps to estimate the assessment and distribution of tigers over 3,78,118 sq.km of forests in 47 reserves in 18 States. The only portions which were not scanned were some parts of the north-east and Jharkhand. Rajesh Gopal, Additional Director and head of the National Tiger Conservation Authority, said the state-of-the art technology meant that there was very little extrapolation based on data. There were 1,540 photos of individual tigers aged above a year and a half for the first time. Mr. Gopal said tigers from India had been in demand in countries such as Laos and Cambodia. The tiger population had increased in Karnataka, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Kerala ,additional Director and head of the National Tiger Conservation Authority Rajesh Gopal told journalists on Tuesday.
Y.V. Jhala, one of the principal investigators of the report, said this was only a summary and a detailed report would be ready by March-end. Assessment was in progress in the Simlipal and Satpuda tiger reserves. The population had increased at the rate of six per cent per annum in India from 2006 while the world lost 97 per cent tigers in the last 50 years in 13 countries, Dr. Jhala said. The main reasons for this increase were effective tackling of poaching, and the positive attitude of the wildlife services. “We were in for a huge surprise as we didn’t expect the numbers to be above 1,800 or 1,900,” said Dr. Jhala. While 1,540 tigers were actually photographed, the rest were estimated based on this. However, for long term survival, the movement of tigers was essential and corridors between forests would be the next conservation goal, he added. The priority should now change to landscape scale management, he added.
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i have posted hindu- news paper article for my friends on dated 22jan 2015

FROM FRONTLINE for civil services aspirants
If the outcome of the Lima climate summit is any indication, in all likelihood the Paris agreement in December 2015 will be a weak and seriously compromised one that will lead to a 3° C temperature rise by the turn of the century, with developing countries bearing the brunt of the effects of severe climate change. By R. RAMACHANDRAN
THE 20th Conference of the Parties (COP 20) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), held during December 1-12, 2014, in the Peruvian capital of Lima, not unexpectedly delivered precious little in terms of safeguarding the world from the disastrous consequences of severe climate change. The Lima climate summit was expected to come out with the basic architecture for a globally binding agreement to tackle climate change to be arrived at COP 21 in December 2015 in Paris.
The main aim of this agreement —which will be a “protocol, another legal instrument or an agreed outcome with legal force under the Convention applicable to all Parties”, to quote the strange phraseology used by the decision of COP 17 (2011) in Durban—is to limit carbon emissions from all countries so as to prevent the globe from breaching the guardrail temperature increase of 2° Celsius by the turn of the century, a limit arrived at in the Cancun summit in 2010. If there was any misplaced hope at all that Lima would come up with a satisfactory legal structure to achieve this goal, it was belied. According to the mandate of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP), which is entrusted with the task of arriving at the new agreement, the Paris Accord will enter into force in 2020.
The phrase “another legal instrument” (italicised above) is a reference to the only binding international treaty that has hitherto been in place, that is, the Kyoto Protocol. It was formulated in 1997 and it entered into force in 2005, and its architecture is based firmly on the fundamental tenets of the UNFCCC, namely:
“The largest share of historical and current global emissions of greenhouse gases [GHGs] has originated in developed countries, that per capita emissions in developing countries are still relatively low and that the share of global emissions originating in developing countries will grow to meet their social and development needs” (in the preamble); and
“The Parties should protect the climate system for the benefit of present and future generations of humankind, on the basis of equity and in accordance with their common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities (CBDR-RC). Accordingly, the developed country Parties should take the lead in combating climate change and the adverse effects thereof.” (Article 3.1)*****
you people are sought to find solutions of following questions----
1-where the cop-20 is running ?
2-which are GHGs ?
3-what is UNFCCC ?
4-how much our home/planet has warmed up ?
5- what is this "another legal instrument" ?
6- what is kyoto-protocol ?
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The recent trend of civil services exams (prelims & mains) requires a deep understanding and insight of national, international events and issues related with environment, ecology, technology, resources and natural disasters. it is inevitable/necessary for the candidates who sought to clear the exams must have the knowledge of ----------
1) current and contemporary issues
2) related basic concepts
3) analysis and synthesis of concerned facts
so, i invoked myself to assist, co-operate and guide our friends and students in this phase of turmoil and turbulent changes in the civil services course and content- .......THANKS