{"id":514,"date":"2023-06-12T13:03:38","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T07:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/?p=514"},"modified":"2024-04-03T07:12:17","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T01:42:17","slug":"q-consider-the-following-statements-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/upsc\/q-consider-the-following-statements-13","title":{"rendered":"Q.\u00a0Consider the following statements:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" type=\"1\">\n<li>Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) to Reduce Short Lived Climate Pollutants is a unique<strong>&nbsp;initiative of G20<\/strong>&nbsp;group of countries.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The CCAC focuses on methane, black carbon and hydrofluorocarbons.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which of the statements given above is\/are correct?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"mcq wp-block-list\">\n<li>1 only<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2 only<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Both 1 and 2<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Neither 1 nor 2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Answer: (b) 2 only<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Notes:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Climatic and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC)<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The governments of&nbsp;<strong>Bangladesh<\/strong>,&nbsp;Mexico, Sweden,&nbsp;Ghana,&nbsp;Canada&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<strong>United States<\/strong>, along with the United Nations Environment Programme (<strong>UNEP<\/strong>), in 2012, came together to initiate efforts to&nbsp;<strong>treat short-lived climate pollutants<\/strong>&nbsp;as a collective and urgent&nbsp;<strong>challenge<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Together, they formed the&nbsp;<strong>Climate &amp; Clean Air Coalition<\/strong>&nbsp;to support fast action on climate, food security, public health, and energy efficiency.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>After carbon dioxide,&nbsp;the&nbsp;<strong>short-lived climate pollutants<\/strong>&nbsp;like&nbsp;<strong>methane<\/strong>, tropospheric ozone,<strong>&nbsp;black carbon<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>hydrofluorocarbons&nbsp;<\/strong>are the most important contributors to the&nbsp;<strong>man-made global greenhouse effect<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>They are responsible for up to 45% of current global warming. &nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If no action is taken to&nbsp;<strong>reduce emissions<\/strong>&nbsp;of these pollutants, they are&nbsp;<strong>expected to<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>cause half of the warming&nbsp;<\/strong>by human activity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-_8c9ada-d4 .kt-block-spacer{height:40px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-_8c9ada-d4 .kt-divider{border-top-width:2px;border-top-color:#eee;width:100%;border-top-style:solid;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-spacer aligncenter kt-block-spacer-_8c9ada-d4\"><div class=\"kt-block-spacer kt-block-spacer-halign-center\"><hr class=\"kt-divider\"\/><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which of the statements given above is\/are correct? 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