The Central Water Commission's (CWC) report, states that with a 33.7% expansion of the surface area, the lakes in India experienced an even more substantial rise
COP16 aimed at assessing the progress on the agreement reached in 2022 in Canada to halt biodiversity loss, with more funding for biodiversity protection being a central issue.
What is a heatwave condition? Why are Indian cities, towns and villages vulnerable both in the hills and the plains? Will notifying it as a State-specific disaster help? Why is it important to have a focused management plan in place?
Is a bigger corpus going to be available for the conservation and preservation of biological diversity?
The issue had been a bone of contention at the 16th Conference of Parties (COP16) to the UN's Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
Nearly 200 countries convened in the city of Cali, aiming to implement the 2022 Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework agreement