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The World Food Programme (WFP) is the food assistance branch of the United Nations and the world’s largest humanitarian organization addressing hunger and promoting food security. The WFP strives to eradicate hunger and malnutrition, with the ultimate goal in mind of eliminating the need for food aid itself.
It is a member of the United Nations Development Group and part of its Executive Committee.
The WFP operations are funded by voluntary and not mandatory donations from world governments, corporations and private donors. WFP food aid is also directed to fight micronutrient deficiencies, reduce child mortality, improve maternal health, and combat disease, including HIV and AIDS.
The WFP has been awarded with the Nobel Prize for Peace 2020 for its efforts to combat hunger, bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and preventing the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict.

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The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is a mega-regional economic agreement being negotiated since 2012, between ASEAN and Free Trade Agreement (FTA) member partners. It aims to boost economic growth and equitable economic development, advance economic cooperation and broaden and deepen integration in the region.
India was involved in early discussions but opted out last year over concerns related to cheap Chinese imports.
RCEP is a Free Trade Agreement between the ten member states of the ASEAN – Association of Southeast Asian Nations namely Cambodia, Indonesia, Brunei, Laos, Malaysia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand and its five partners (China, South Korea, Australia, Japan, and New Zealand).

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The TRAFFIC, the Wildlife Trade Monitoring Network, is a leading non-governmental organisation working on wildlife trade in the context of both biodiversity conservation and sustainable development. It is a joint program of World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
It was established in 1976 and has developed into a global network, research-driven and action-oriented, committed to delivering innovative and practical conservation solutions. Its Headquarters is in Cambridge, United Kingdom.
It aims to ensure that trade in wild plants and animals is not a threat to the conservation of nature.

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CITES is an international agreement between governments to ensure that international trade in specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten their survival. It is also known as the Washington Convention.
States that have agreed to be bound by the Convention are known as Parties. CITES is legally binding on the Parties. However, it does not take the place of national laws.
It only provides a framework to be respected by each Party. The parties need to adopt their own domestic legislation to ensure that CITES is implemented at the national level.

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This sub-regional organization came into being in 1997 through the Bangkok Declaration. Initially, it was formed with four Member States with the acronym ‘BIST-EC’ (Bangladesh, India, Sri-Lanka and Thailand Economic Cooperation).
It became renamed ‘BIMST-EC’ in 1997, following the inclusion of Myanmar. With the admission of Nepal and Bhutan in 2004, the name of the grouping was changed to ‘Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation’ (BIMSTEC).
It mainly aims to create an enabling environment for rapid economic development; accelerate social progress; and promote collaboration on matters of common interest in the region.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was created in 1957 in response to the deep fears and expectations generated by the discoveries and diverse uses of nuclear technology. The Agency works with its Member States and multiple partners worldwide to promote safe, secure and peaceful use of nuclear technologies.
IAEA’s headquarters is in Vienna, Austria.
It is an independent international organization that reports annually to the UN General Assembly. When necessary, the IAEA also reports to the UN Security Council in regards to instances of members’ non-compliance with safeguards and security obligations.
India is a founding member of IAEA.

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IPEEC is an autonomous partnership of nations founded in 2009 by the Group of 8 (G8) to promote collaboration on energy efficiency. It works to catalyse global deployment of energy efficiency measures in all sectors by providing a high-level platform for policy dialogue and reform that spurs market transformation to promote energy-efficient technology, products and services.
It is headquartered in Paris, France.
India is one of the founder members of IPEEC.

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UNEP is an agency of the United Nations which coordinates the UN’s environmental activities.
It was founded as a result of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment 1972.
Its activities cover a wide range of issues regarding the atmosphere, marine and terrestrial ecosystems, environmental governance and green economy.
UNEP is also one of several Implementing Agencies for the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol.
Important Reports by UNEP are Emission Gap Report, Global Environment Outlook,
Frontiers and Invest into Healthy Planet.

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IPCC is a scientific intergovernmental body under the auspices of the United Nations. It was first established in 1988 by two United Nations organizations, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
Membership of the IPCC is open to all members of the WMO and UNEP.
The IPCC produces reports that support the UNFCCC. IPCC reports cover all relevant information to understand the risk of human-induced climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation.
The IPCC does not carry out its own original research. Thousands of scientists and other experts contribute on a voluntary basis.

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The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is an international, intergovernmental economic organization of 36 countries. OECD was founded in the year 1961 to stimulate world trade and economic progress.
OECD originated in 1948, as the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation (OEEC). The Organisation for European Economic Co-operation (OEEC) was founded to govern the predominantly US-funded Marshall Plan for post-war reconstruction on the continent.
It provides a platform for its member countries to compare policy experiences, seek answers to common problems, identify and share best practices, and coordinate domestic and international policies of its member nations.
OECD is an official United Nations observer and is referred to as a think-tank or as a monitoring group.
The OECD’s headquarters are at the Château de la Muette in Paris, France.
The OECD’s 37 members are: Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States.

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The Colombo Plan was established in 1950 with its headquarters in Colombo. It is a regional organisation that embodies the concept of collective intergovernmental effort to strengthen economic and social development of member countries in the Asia-Pacific region. The primary focus of all Colombo Plan activities is on human resources development.
It was started as a group of seven Commonwealth countries; it has now 27 member countries. 27 Current members Afghanistan; Australia; Bangladesh; Bhutan; Brunei; Fiji; India; Indonesia; Iran; Japan; Laos; Malaysia; Maldives; Mongolia; Myanmar; Nepal; New Zealand; Pakistan; Papua New Guinea, Philippines; Saudi Arabia; Singapore; South Korea; Sri Lanka; Thailand; United States and Vietnam. Former members were Cambodia; Canada; South Vietnam and United Kingdom.

The United Nations Human Settlements Programme, UN-HABITAT, is the United Nations agency for human settlements. It is mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all.
India has been elected to the Executive Board of the first UN-Habitat Assembly at the Plenary Session of the Assembly that was held in Nairobi in 2019.
The nodal agency for UN-Habitat in India is the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.
Some of the publications released by UN-Habitat are:
• The State of the World’s Cities
• The Global Report on Human Settlements
• New Urban Agenda
• Sustainable Development Goals and Urban Local Bodies – The Future We Want

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IORA was established in 1997 and is a regional forum that seeks to build and expand understanding and mutually beneficial cooperation through a consensus-based, evolutionary and non-intrusive approach.
IORA has 22 member states, including Australia, Bangladesh, Comoros, India, Indonesia, Iran, Kenya, Madagascar, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritius, Mozambique, Oman, Seychelles, Singapore, Somalia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand, UAE, and Yemen.
Its Secretariat is based in Cyber City, Ebène, Mauritius.
It manages, coordinates, services and monitors the implementation of policy decisions, work programmes and projects adopted by the member states.

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The International Solar Alliance is a group of nations that lies within the Tropics (Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn) and receive sunshine for more than 300 days.
It is a platform for the collaboration of sunshine countries in the domain of energy security.

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“Freedom in the World 2021: Democracy under Siege” report was recently released by U.S. think tank, Freedom House
It has classified India as ‘partly free’. India’s rating has been downgraded as compared to last year. According to the report, the Indian government and its State-level allies continued to crack down on critics during the year.

Johannesburg declaration on Sustainable Development was adopted at the World Summit of Sustainable Development referred to as Earth Summit, 2002.

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Global Environment Facility is an independently operating financial organization that provides grants for projects related to biodiversity, climate change, international waters, land degradation, the ozone layer, and persistent organic pollutants.
The GEF serves as financial mechanism for the following conventions:
• Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
• UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)
• Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)
• Minamata Convention on Mercury

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The Montreux Record is a register of wetland sites on the ‘List of Wetlands of International Importance’ where variations in ecological character have happened, are happening, or are likely to happen as an outcome of technological developments, pollution, or other human interference.
At present, there are two Indian sites Loktak Lake, Manipur and Keoladeo National Park, Rajasthan on the Montreux Record. Chilika Lake, Odisha was the first Indian site to be placed on Montreux Record in 1993 due to siltation, which was choking the mouth of the lake. After a range of interventions, primarily the successful dredging of lake-mouth, opening it to the Bay of Bengal, it was removed from the list in 2002.

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The New START Treaty is a treaty between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on measures for the further reduction and limitation of strategic offensive arms.
It entered into force on 5th February, 2011.
It is a successor to the START framework of 1991 (at the end of the Cold War) that limited both sides to 1,600 strategic delivery vehicles and 6,000 warheads.

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The Hague Code of Conduct is a voluntary, legally non-binding international confidence building and transparency measure that seeks to prevent the proliferation of ballistic missiles that are capable of delivering weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
It was established on 25 November 2002 as a result of international efforts to regulate access to ballistic missiles which can potentially deliver WMDs
The HCOC does not ban ballistic missiles, but it calls for restraining their production, testing, and export. It is the only normative instrument to verify the spread of ballistic missiles.