Tag: introduction to natural resources (eco)

• The number of people, animals, or crops which a region can support without environmental degradation is called carrying capacity.
  
• It can simply be called as environment’s maximal load.
  
• The factors which govern the carrying capacity is food, water, raw material etc. 
  

• A United Nations conference on climate in the year 1997 was held in Kyoto of Japan. This was called Kyoto Protocol.
  
• The Kyoto Protocol implemented the objective of the UNFCCC to fight global warming by reducing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere to a level that would prevent dangerous human interference with the climate system. 
  

• The 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference was held in the month of December.
  
• This conference was held in Copenhagen which is the capital city of Denmark.
  
• The main long term goal of this conference was to stop increasing the global temperature beyond 2 degree centigrade.
  

• Greenhouse Gases are those gases which cause greenhouse effect resulting in global warming. They include water vapour, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and ozone.
  
• The percentage of greenhouse gases contributed by India to global emission between 1990 and 2012 is 5.8.
  

Global environmental facility was established in the year 1991, December. It assists in the prevention of environmental pollution and in achieving the sustainable development.

• Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) is an intergovernmental organization of low-lying coastal and small island countries. Main purpose of the alliance is to consolidate the voices of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) to address global warming. 
  
• It consists of countries sharing similar developmental challenges and is concerned about the environmental problems like climate change.
  

Switzerland along with Mexico and Republic of Korea forms Environment Integrity Group. Among the given options India is not included in the group. This ensures the conserved use of resources and maintain environmental stability.

Change in global or regional climatic patterns is called climate change. The main impact of climate change is the increase in sea level. This is because of melting of ice due to increase of global temperature as a result of climatic change.