Environmental issues are shaping policies like never before, making Ecology & Environment a high-priority topic for UPSC Prelims 2025.
Staying updated isn’t just about reading headlines—it’s about understanding how environmental challenges, laws, and global agreements connect with static concepts.
UPSC Prelims 2025: Current Affairs Through Key Concepts – Ecology & Environment is a comprehensive round-up of key environmental developments from July 2023 to December 2024, linking them with relevant concepts to make learning structured and exam-oriented.
What’s Inside This Book?
Climate Change & Global Warming
- Heat Dome Effect – A new extreme weather challenge.
- Collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) – Global implications of ocean circulation changes.
- Thawing Permafrost – From carbon sink to climate threat.
- Atlantification of the Arctic – Changing ocean currents and its impact on global weather.
Biodiversity & Conservation
- India’s New Ramsar Sites – Expanding wetland protection.
- Sacred Groves Protection – Supreme Court’s directive on traditional forest conservation.
- Bustard Recovery Program – Saving the critically endangered Great Indian Bustard.
- 50 Years of Project Tiger – India’s conservation milestone.
Climate Summits & Global Agreements
- COP29 & Climate Finance – Funding climate action and India’s role.
- COP16 & Global Biodiversity Conservation – Key outcomes.
- Loss and Damage Fund – A climate justice initiative for vulnerable nations.
- Global Green Credit Initiative – A step towards market-based conservation.
Environmental Laws & Policies
- Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Amendment Act, 2024 – Strengthening water conservation laws.
- Supreme Court ruling on Forest Definition – Impact of the 1996 judgment.
- Coastal Aquaculture Authority Act, 2023 – Updates on aquaculture regulations.
Disaster Management & Resilience
- Expansion of Glacial Lakes in the Himalayas – A growing climate risk.
- Landslide Susceptibility Mapping in India – Understanding vulnerable zones.
- India’s Integrated Ocean Energy Atlas – Mapping ocean-based renewable energy.
Green Technology & Sustainable Solutions
- Agrivoltaic Farming – Merging solar power with agriculture.
- Green Steel & Ship Recycling – The future of sustainable industries.
- India’s First Teal Carbon Study – Unlocking the power of coastal ecosystems.
And much more!
This book also covers air pollution control initiatives, eco-sensitive zones, forest reports, plastic waste management, India’s climate diplomacy, the role of traditional knowledge in sustainability, and emerging environmental challenges.
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