{"id":70959,"date":"2019-03-16T12:19:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-16T12:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=70959"},"modified":"2019-03-16T12:19:35","modified_gmt":"2019-03-16T12:19:35","slug":"global-environment-outlook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/global-environment-outlook\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Environment Outlook"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Question: Consider the following statements in respect to the Global Environment Report released recently and choose the correct option:<\/strong> \n<br>(1)\tThe report is released by United Nations Environment Program\n<br>(2)\tThe report mentions that a quarter of all premature deaths and diseases worldwide are due to manmade pollution and environmental damage\n<br>(3)\t1.4m people die each year due to lack of access to clean drinking supplies\n<br>(4)\tThis report was first published in 2010\n<strong><br>Correct option:<\/strong>\n<br>(a)\t1, 2 and 4\n<br>(b)\t1, 3 and 4\n<br>(c)\t1, 2 and 3\n<br>(d)\t2, 3 and 4\n<strong><br>Answer: (c)\n<br>Related facts:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>United Nation Environment released it\nGlobal Environment Report in Nairobi, Kenya on 13<sup>th<\/sup> March, 2019. <\/strong><\/li><li>The\nreport mentions that a <strong>quarter of all\npremature deaths and diseases<\/strong> worldwide are due to <strong>man-made pollution and environmental damage<\/strong>. <\/li><li>The\nreport is prepared in <strong>six years by 250\nscientists from 70 nations<\/strong>. <\/li><li>The\nreport shows a <strong>growing gap between rich\nand poor countries<\/strong> as extensive over-consumption, pollution and food waste\nin the developed world leads to hunger, poverty and disease elsewhere.<\/li>\n<script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7086827700842303\" data-ad-slot=\"2662621974\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script>\n<li><strong>1.4m&nbsp;people die each\nyear<\/strong> due to lack of\naccess <strong>to clean drinking supplies<\/strong>\nfrom preventable diseases such as diarrhea and parasites linked to\npathogen-riddled water and poor sanitation.<\/li><li>The\nreport warns that <strong>deadly smog emissions<\/strong>,\nchemicals polluting drinking water and the accelerating destruction of\necosystems which is crucial to the livelihoods of billions of people are\ndriving a worldwide epidemic that hampers the global economy.<\/li><li>The\npoor environmental conditions cause approximately <strong>25%&nbsp;of global disease and mortality, around 9 million deaths in\n2015 only.<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7086827700842303\" data-ad-slot=\"3738911217\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script>\n<li>The\nreport says <strong>air pollution causes 6-7\nmillion early deaths<\/strong> annually.<\/li><li><strong>Food waste accounts for\n9%&nbsp;of global greenhouse gas emissions<\/strong>. The world currently throws away a third of total food\nproduction, in richer nations the figure is approximately 56%.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Global Environment Outlook (GEO):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>The Global Environment Outlook (GEO)<\/strong> is often referred to as UN\nEnvironment\u2019s flagship environmental assessment.&nbsp; The <strong>first\npublication was issued in 1997<\/strong>. <\/li><li>It\nis a flagship report because it fulfills the core functions of the\norganization, which date back to the UN General Assembly resolution that\nestablished the UN Environment Programme in <strong>1972.<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/energy-and-environment\/environment-damage-behind-a-quarter-of-premature-deaths-diseases-un-report\/article26524718.ece\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/energy-and-environment\/environment-damage-behind-a-quarter-of-premature-deaths-diseases-un-report\/article26524718.ece<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/world\/2019\/0313\/1036119-environment-damage-health\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/world\/2019\/0313\/1036119-environment-damage-health\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/global-environment-outlook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/global-environment-outlook<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Consider the following statements in respect to the Global Environment Report released recently and choose the correct option: (1) The report is released by United Nations Environment Program (2) The report mentions that a quarter of all premature deaths and diseases worldwide are due to manmade pollution and environmental damage (3) 1.4m people die [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}