Current Affair 1:

National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA)

 

National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) was set up as registered society under the Societies Registration Act of 1860 on November 24, 2005 with a mandate for Dope free sports in India.

The primary objectives are to implement anti-doping rules as per WADA code, regulate dope control programme, to promote education and research and creating awareness about doping and its ill effects.

The World Anti-Doping Agency annually updates the List of Prohibited Substances and Methods. The list is the International Standard defining what is prohibited in-competition and out-of-competition.

 

Doping is defined by WADA as the occurrence of one or more of the following anti-doping rule violations mentioned in the WADA/NADA Code.

1. Presence of a prohibited substance or its metabolites or markers in an athlete’s sample.
2. Use or attempted use by an athlete of a prohibited substance or a prohibited method.
3. Refusing to submit to sample collection after being notified.
4. Failure to provide whereabouts information or being unavailable for doping control.
5. Tampering with any part of the doping control process.
6. Possession of a prohibited substance or method.
7. Trafficking a prohibited substance or method.
8. Administering or attempting to administer a prohibited substance or method to an athlete.

Current Affair 2:

Article 6 of the Paris Agreement

 

Before we discuss Article 6, please briefly describe carbon markets. How can they curb global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and fight climate change?

Carbon markets are a very important tool to reach global climate goals, particularly in the short and medium term. Carbon markets incentivize climate action by enabling parties to trade carbon credits generated by the reduction or removal of GHGs from the atmosphere, such as by switching from fossil fuels to renewable energy or enhancing or conserving carbon stocks in ecosystems such as a forest.

What is Article 6?

Article 6 of the Paris Agreement allows countries to voluntarily cooperate with each other to achieve emission reduction targets set out in their NDCs. This means that, under Article 6, a country (or countries) will be able to transfer carbon credits earned from the reduction of GHG emissions to help one or more countries meet climate targets.

Within Article 6, Article 6.2 allows countries to enter into mutual agreements to trade mitigation outcomes (MO) that can be reported and accounted for under an international framework. In other words, mitigation efforts in one country could be used to fulfil NDC targets in another country.

In 2020, Peru and Switzerland became the first countries to sign a bilateral cooperation agreement. Since then, over two dozen additional bilateral agreements have been signed:

Article 6.4 is expected to be similar to the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol. It establishes a mechanism for trading GHG emission reductions between countries under the supervision of the Conference of Parties – the decision-making body of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Article 6.8 recognizes non-market approaches to promote mitigation and adaptation. It introduces cooperation through finance, technology transfer, and capacity building, where no trading of emission reductions is involved.

Current Affair 3:

Gramodyog Vikas Yojana (GVY).

 

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Current Affair 4:

LIFE SWiPE project

 

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The project "Successful wildlife crime prosecution in Europe" (LIFE SWiPE) aims to discourage, and ultimately reduce the number of wildlife crimes, through better enforcement of EU environmental regulations and more successfully prosecuted crimes, helping thus restoring the endangered European biological diversity and ecosystem health.

11 European countries participate in the project, including EU-member states, EU candidate countries, and potential EU candidate countries.

 

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