IUCN World Conservation Congress
KEY INSTRUMENTS OF IUCN IN NEWS
GREEN STATUS ASSESSMENT FOR THE LION
UNESCO’s World Network of Biosphere Reserves (WNBR)
Wildlife Protection Act (WPA), 1972
Biological Diversity (Access and Benefit Sharing) Regulation 2025
CSS-Integrated Development of Wildlife Habitats Scheme (CSS-IDWH)
Project Cheetah
Tiger Reserves
International Big Cat Alliance (IBCA)
Status of Small Cats in Tiger Landscape of India Report
Status of Elephants in India
50 years of Crocodile Conservation Project
River Dolphins
Vultures
Draft Policy Paper on Camels
Wild Yak
Tamil Nadu’s Endangered Species’ Conservation
Van (Sanrakshan Evam Samvardhan) Amendment Rules, 2025
National Mission for a Green India
Environmental Accounting on Forest 2025
UN ‘High Seas’ Treaty
Ramsar Convention on Wetlands
NEW RAMSAR SITES IN INDIA
Vembanad lake
Dal Lake
Coral Bleaching
Sustainable Aquaculture in Mangrove Ecosystems (SAIME)
Island Protection Zone (IPZ)
United Nations Forum on Forests
Third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3)
International Blue Flag Certification
AIM4NatuRe (Accelerating Innovative Monitoring for Nature Restoration)
Central Asian Mammals Initiative (CAMI)
Blue Pinkgill and Shuttlecock Mushrooms
AviList
Conservation Reserve
Global Ocean Darkening
Environmental DNA
Blue Washing
Functional De-extinction
Ungulates
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)
International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV)
IBAT Alliance
National Green Tribunal (NGT)
Global Forest Resources Assessment (GFRA) 2025
UNFCCC COP30
Other Important Outcomes of COP30
Other Important Initiatives at COP30
Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)
Greenhouse Gases Emission Intensity (GEI) Target Rules, 2025
Green Credit Program
Article 6 of Paris Climate Agreement
Montreal Protocol
Net Zero Framework for Global Shipping
Carbon Capture and Utilisation (CCU)
Methane emissions
Glacier Preservation
Maitri II
Global Reporting Initiative
Net-Zero Banking Alliance
UAE Consensus
AmazonFACE
NASA’ Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO)
Climate Tipping Point
Arctic Amplification
Planetary Boundaries
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Global Environment Facility
World Meteorological Organisation (WMO)
State and Trends of Carbon Pricing 2025
State of the Cryosphere Report 2025
Energy Transition Index (ETI), 2025
Climate Risk Index (CRI) 2026
Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) 2026
2025 Conferences of Parties to BASEL, Rotterdam, and Stockholm Conventions
Minamata Convention
Global Plastic Pollution Treaty
RELATED TERMS IN NEWS
Urban Air Pollution
Swachh Vayu Sarveshan Award 2025
Aerosol
Polluted River Stretch
Desalination Technologies
Revised Classification of Industries
New Rules for Contaminated Site Management
Hazardous and Other Wastes (Management and Transboundary Movement) Amendment Rules, 2025
WHO Global Conference on Air Pollution and Health
Smog Eating Technology
Global Outlook Council on Water
Investments (GOCWI)
River Cities Alliance (RCA)
Dumpsite Remediation Accelerator Programme (DRAP)
National Level Pollution Response Exercise (NATPOLREX-X)
Ground-level Ozone (GLO)
Secondary Pollutants
Toxic Heavy Metals
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)
Green Firecrackers
Flue Gas Desulphurisation (FGD)
Taj Trapezium Zone (TTZ)
Environmental Flow (E-flow)
State of Global Air Report (SoGA) 2025
2025 Annual Update of the Air Quality Life Index (AQLI)
Global Trade Update on Mobilising trade to curb Plastic Pollution
10 Years of SDGs: India’s Progress
Sustainable Development Report (SDR) 2025
Sustainable Development Goals Report (SDGR) 2025
“Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The Gender Snapshot 2025”
District SDG Index 2023–24 for the Northeast Region (NER)
National Indicator Framework (NIF) Progress Report 2025
Voluntary National Review (VNR) Report 2025
Financing for Sustainable Development
Renewable Energy Sector
International Solar Alliance (ISA)
Solar Panel Efficiency Norms
National Green Hydrogen Mission (NGHM)
NATIONAL BIOENERGY PROGRAMME (NBP)
ETHANOL BLENDED PETROL (EBP) PROGRAMME
OTHER BIOFUELS IN NEWS
National Policy on Geothermal Energy (NPGE, 2025)
Wind Energy
Draft Guidelines for Underground Coal Gasification (UCG)
ADEETIE Scheme
Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency (CAFE) Norms
Bio-Input Resource Centres (BRCs)
Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS)
Agroforestry
Environment Audit (EA) Rules, 2025
Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
Great Nicobar Island Project (GNIP)
Dam Safety in India
Seed Management
Sand Mining
BRICS Land Restoration Partnership
UN-India Global Capacity-Building Initiative
RECLAIM Framework
L.I.V.E.S. and ARTHA
Uniform Renewable Energy Tariff (URET)
UNDP Equator Initiative Award
Sustainable Energy for All (Sefor ALL)
Renewable Purchase Obligation (RPO) and Renewable Consumption Obligation (RCO)
Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF)
Green Municipal Bonds (GMB)
Gas Hydrates
International Energy Agency
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)
Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI)
Production Gap Report 2025
Global Electricity Mid Year Insights 2025
The State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) 2025 Report
International Conference on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure 2025
Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Financing
C-FLOOD
Cloudbursts
Glacial Lakes and Glacial Lakes Outburst Floods (GLOFs)
Tsunami
Oil Spill
National Crisis Management Committee (NCMC)
Winter Fog Experiment (WiFEX)
Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard Early Warning System (RIMES)
LICOMK++ Ocean Simulator
Weather Derivatives (WD)
SACHET (India’s SMS Based Alert System)
Cell Broadcast (Near Real Time Emergency Alerts)
Early Warnings for All (EW4All)
Twister
Grey Rhino Event
Super Typhoon
Earthquake Swarm
Swell Waves
Blowout
Mesoscale Convective System (MCS)
Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services(INCOIS)
Global Drought Outlook, 2025
Disaster Risk Index (DRI)
District Flood Severity Index
Global Geoparks Network (GGN)
Polymetallic Sulphides
Bharat Forecast System (BFS)
Long-period average (LPA)
True Polar Wander (TPW)
Pacific Ring of Fire
Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)
Delamination
Solar Tornado
Cold Pools
Earth’s Deep Seafloor
Polar Anticyclone
Thirstwave
Mercator’s Map
Arabian Sea Mini Warm Pool
National Centre of Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR)
Shipki La
Gangotri Glacier
Majuli island
Kancha Gachibowli Forest
Kariyachalli island
Barren island Volcano
Mt. Khangchendzonga
Andoman Sea
Beas River
Chenab River
Subansiri River
River Mandovi/Mhadei/Mahadayi
Kopili River
Siyom River
Subarnarekha River
Ranjit Sagar Dam (Thein Dam)
Etalin hydroelectric project
Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project (KLIP)
Pamban Bridge
Davis strait Proto-Microcontinent
Arctic Biome
Kamchatka Peninsula
Perito Moreno glacier
Turtle island
Drake passage
Arun-3 Hydroelectric Project
Scarborough Shoal
Tulare Lake
Congo River
Aral Sea
Blue Nile
Great Ruaha River
Seine River
Mount Etna
Turkiye (Capital: Ankara)
Cyclone Asna
Peru (Capital: Lima)
Chile (Capital: Santiago)
Kilauea Volcano
Vietnam (Capital: Hanoi)
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) (Capital: Kinshasa)
Afghanistan (Kabul)
Algeria (Capital: Algiers)
Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki)
Hayli Gubbi, Ethiopia
Mount Semeru, Indonesia
Vanuatu (capital: port vila)
Columbia (Capital: Bogota)
Denmark (Capital: Copenhagen)
Ehiopia (capital: Addis Ababa)
Tuvalu (capital: funafuti)
Ecuador (capital: Quito)
Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve
Mhadei wildlife sanctuary
Tsarap chu conservation reserve
Mahuadanr wolf sanctuary
Male mahadeshwar a (MM) Hills wildlife sanctuary
Thattekad Bird sanctuary
Sahyadri Tiger Reserve
Keiblul Lamjao national park
Similipal Tiger Reserve
Agasthramala biosphere reserve
Duhwa Tiger Reserve (DTR)
Salkhan Fossile park
Bhagirathi Eco Sensitive zone (ESZ)
Sundarbans Tiger Reserve (STR)
Snow leopard
Greater one-horned Rhino
Nilgiri Tahr
Dhole (Asiatic wild dog)
Alpine musk Deer
Indian Grey Wolf (Canis lupus pallipes)
Bonobo
Malabar Grey hornbill
Greater flamingo
Dugong
Oline Ridley Turtle (ORT)
Asian Giant Softshell turtle (Pelochelys cantorri)
Labeo uru and Labeo chekida
Clinidium lalitae
Lichens
Tardigrades (Water bear/moss piglet)
Cicadas
Red sanders (Red sandalwood)
Banana musa Indandamanensis
White Himalayan Lily
Murikooti pacha
Arogyapacha
Conocarpus Trees
Sea Buckthorn
Senna Spectabilis