QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 28 April 2018

Solution: d.

The NAG missile is a third generation anti-tank guided missile, which has top attack capabilities that can effectively engage and destroy all known enemy tanks during day and night.

PIB1;

Improvisation: PIB;

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Solution: c.

Bringing together a diverse group of international experts and partners, the GLO is a strategic communications platform and publication that addresses the future challenges and opportunities for the management and restoration of land resources in the context of sustainable development.

The first edition of the UNCCD’s GLO was published in 2017.

UNCCD;

Improvisation: PIB;

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Solution: a.

Trends.Earth is a land degradation monitoring tool which was produced as part of the project “Enabling the use of global data sources to assess and monitor land degradation at multiple scales”, funded by the Global Environment Facility. Conservation International is the implementing agency of the aforementioned project.

The Land Degradation Monitoring Project is a partnership of Conservation International, Lund University, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and is funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF).

About Trends.Earth;

Improvisation: PIB;

Solution: c.

The 1972 Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage developed from the merging of two separate movements: the first focusing on the preservation of cultural sites, and the other dealing with the conservation of nature. This convention is also known as the World Heritage Convention. The Convention defines the kind of natural or cultural sites which can be considered for inscription on the World Heritage List.

The 3 Rio Conventions – on Biodiversity, Climate Change and Desertification—derive directly from the 1992 Earth Summit. Each instrument represents a way of contributing to the sustainable development goals of Agenda 21 (Agenda 21 is a comprehensive plan of action to be taken globally, nationally and locally by organizations of the United Nations System, Governments, and Major Groups in every area in which human impacts on the environment. It was adopted at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1992.)

Source/Improvisation: PIB;

Solution: d.

Ebola virus disease (EVD), formerly known as Ebola haemorrhagic fever, is a severe, often fatal illness in humans. The virus is transmitted to people from wild animals and spreads in the human population through human-to-human transmission.

PIB;

Vector Borne Diseases;

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