UPSC PRELIMINARY MOCK TEST 206

Global Environment Outlook (GEO) is a series of reports on the environment issued periodically by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The sixth edition of the Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6) provides a clear assessment of the current state of the environment, the challenges that we face and how well we have dealt with them, with due consideration given to gender, indigenous knowledge and cultural dimensions. The assessment lays the foundation for continued socio-environmental assessments across relevant scales, with a thematic as well as an integrated focus, enabling and informing societal transitions and the tracking of Sustainable Development Goal targets and goals as well as previously agreed internationally environmental goals. Using the integrated environmental assessment (IEA) methodology, UNEP has produced five GEO reports thus far, and the first edition of regional assessments which have analyzed environmental state and trends at the global and regional scales, described plausible outlooks for various time frames and formulated policy options.

In Assam, labourers on tea plantations went on strike. When the fleeing workers were fired upon,
there were strikes on the steamer service, and on the Assam-Bengal Railway as well. J.M. Sengupta,
the Bengali nationalist leader, played a leading role in these developments. "

BBC: The UN says Yemen is on the brink of the world's worst famine in 100 years if the war continues. Just last month, it warned that half the population of the war-torn country was facing "pre-famine conditions". A country has to meet the following criteria to be declared in famine:

• At least one in five households faces an extreme lack of food
• More than 30% of children under five are suffering from acute malnutrition
• At least two people out of every 10,000 are dying every day

The UN said - based on assessments from a year ago - the first two thresholds had either been exceeded or was dangerously close in 107 of Yemen's 333 districts. But the third threshold about numbers of deaths was more difficult to confirm. The organisation is currently repeating the assessments. "

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