Gist of Editorials: A Stop Sign | GS – III
Intensive measures in key sectors will help meet the national pledge to cut energy intensity of GDP.
Value Added Article: Carving Out The Coasts | Category – Environment | Source – EPW
By facilitating the large-scale intrusion of commercial and industrial activities into the fragile coastal territories, the new CRZ policy would upset the prevailing human–ecological balance.
Gist of Editorials: Farming in a Warming World (The Hindu) | GS – III
India's agriculture ecosystem, distinguished by high monsoon dependence, and with 85% small and marginal landholdings, is highly sensitive to weather abnormalities.
Editorial Simplified: Farming in a Warming World | GS – III
India's agriculture ecosystem, distinguished by high monsoon dependence, and with 85% small and marginal landholdings, is highly sensitive to weather abnormalities.
Gist of Editorials: Death in the Air (The Hindu) | GS – III
India’s national standard for ambient fine particulate matter, or PM2.5, is notoriously lax at 40 micrograms per cubic metre, but even so, 77% of the population was exposed to higher levels on average.
Editorial Simplified: Death in the Air | GS – III
India’s national standard for ambient fine particulate matter, or PM2.5, is notoriously lax at 40 micrograms per cubic metre, but even so, 77% of the population was exposed to higher levels on average.
Gist of Editorials: Still on the Last Chance Saloon (The Hindu) | GS – III
Average global temperatures have crossed a degree Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Purpose of the COP 24 is to agree on a rulebook to implement pledges made by the Paris Agreement.
Editorial Simplified: Still on the Last Chance Saloon | GS – III
The world is in deep trouble. Average global temperatures have crossed a degree Celsius above pre-industrial levels and such concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere (410 ppm) has never been seen by humans before.
Gist of Editorials: Cutting through the Smog (The Hindu) | GS – III
Air pollution in north India has largely been attributed to stubble burning. Farmers are held responsible for the crisis but policies of the Central and State governments are at fault.
Editorial Simplified: Cutting through the Smog | GS – III
Incidents of stubble burning cannot be averted by imposing fines, or giving notice or giving farmers capital subsidy. Instead, the issue requires long-term vision and strategic policy interventions.
