UPSC CURRENT AFFAIRS

The Environmental Performance Index (EPI) is a tool used to rank countries based on their performance in environmental health, ecosystem vitality, and climate change efforts.

Recently in 2025, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) added 11 new biosphere reserves to the World Network of Biosphere Reserves (WNBR) under its Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme.

India initiated the Crocodile Conservation Project in 1975.

The Karnataka government recently rejected the Kasturirangan Committee Report, which recommended declaring a large portion of the Western Ghats as Eco-Sensitive Areas (ESAs). 

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species is the world’s most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of plant, animal, and fungi species. 

The Union Cabinet of India has approved India’s proposal to sign and ratify the framework agreement of the International Big Cat Alliance (IBCA). 

The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) has approved a draft Net-Zero Framework to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the global shipping industry.

The Madhya Pradesh government has approved the ‘Tiger Reserve Buffer Zone Development Scheme’ for the overall development of the buffer zones of all its tiger reserves.

The Rights and Resources Initiative has presented an overview of carbon rights in a report titled ‘Carbon Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Peoples of African Descent and Local Communities in Tropical and Subtropical Lands and Forests’.