Team 1
60% of all clothes are made of plastic! The most common type of plastic that is used to make clothes is
Polyester
India enforced a ban on single use plastic in 2022, but the ban is only on 19 specifically defined items. Which item is NOT part of the banned list?
Plastic bottles(<200ml)
X % of end of life plastic is recycled in India. The remaining ends up in landfills. 'X' is ...
X is ~25%
X which is now a widely known phenomenon was first discovered by Eunice Newtoon Foote in 1856. She placed a glass cylinder filled with carbon dioxide in sunlight and found that it heated up much more than a cylinder of ordinary air. The discovery was wrongly attributed to John Tyndall for a long time who did similar experiments in 1859. What is X?
Greenhouse Effect
This company was the world's top plastic polluter in 2023 according to the global audit by the Break Free From Plastic Movement. It's the 6th consecutive year the company has maintained its position on top. Identify the company.
The real drug - Coca Cola
This Christopher Nolan movie never explicitly mentions 'climate change' but its setting shows humanity struggling to produce enough food as crops are getting destroyed by blight and dust storms are ravaging the land, possibly triggered by climate change. The movie is
Interstellar ;)
Lantana Camara first came to India as decorative plant for gardens and is today one of the 10 most invasive species in the world.
The Real _____ Collective (TREC) is an organisation that has made sculptures from the wood of the Lantana plant. The TREC aims to achieve the dual purpose of spreading awareness about threats to an animal habitats while also clearing the forests of Nigiris of the invasive species.
These sculptures have been displayed at many places across the world inc. Vidhan Soudha in Bangalore. Identify the blank.
Elephant
In the Amazon rainforest, known as 'The lungs of the Earth', almost 1.5 mn hectare of forest land is destroyed every year. The biggest contributor to this
Beef production - clearing forests for grazing cows
This poster is an Ad by an Indian brand (launched in 1969 as a detergent bar) that has made a product called 'Smart foam' that claims to need only 50% of the water required for washing. Which brand is this ?
Rin
Y is the name of an art work (image shared) by an artist Mandy Barker aimed at creating awareness about marine pollution. It consists of 992 objects of a certain kind recovered from the ocean. Y has a double meaning - it is a term related to the objects featured in the art work and the price of not doing enough to stop the pollution.
'Penalty' it is !!
X is the name of a machine (ask for clue if you need one) used by the Ocean clean up project to stop and collect waste in rivers and prevent it from flowing into oceans. It shares its name with a Royal Enfield model and a 2022 movie starring Chris Hemsworth. X is ...
Interceptor
Which electronics brand in India offers a doorstep pick-up service for e-waste recycling, allowing customers to safely dispose of old gadgets?
Samsung
Transport, at 10%, is only the 4th largest SoE in India. Trucks and buses make up >80% of emissions here, not passenger vehicles or aviation. Electrification is the fastest route to decarbonisation here, too. Switch Mobility, a subsidary of Ashok Leland, has 7-8 electric vehicle models. Early 2023 saw the release of one of them - the Ei 22.
200 EiV 22 vehicles were chosen to replace what icon from an Indian Metro
The iconic Double Decker Buses
(operated by Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport (BEST) in Mumbai)
At over 11,000 feet in _____, six teams participated in the Climate Cup, a ____ tournament aimed at raising awareness about environmental issues and the impact of climate change on sports.
Ladakh, football
Jadav 'Molai' Payeng is known as the 'Forest man of India'. He was given the Padma Shri in 2015 and a triligual movie starring Rana Dagubatti based on him was released in 2022.He is famous for ...
Growing a forest on a sandbar in the Brahmaputra
Heat is called a 'silent killer'. It can be fatal and heatwaves actually cause more deaths than any other extreme weather events (e.g. hurricanes or flashfloods) but is rarely recognized as so. To create awareness about this, which country became the first one to start naming heatwaves with Heatwave Zoe in 2022?
Spain
30% of the electricity usage in the city 'X' is for cooling. The central area of X uses a District Cooling system - It involves centralising cooling plants that distribute chilled water to various buildings through an underground network of insulated pipes in stead of each buildings having its own air conditioning systems. It has reduced the energy required for cooling by more than 15%. Identify X.
Singapore
This graph (see image) has been critical in showing the rise in atmospheric CO2 and proving the link between rising CO2 and global temperatures. What is it called?
Keeling Curve
City Y has implemented an innovative solution for reducing traffic congestion. By introducing a Bicycle Sharing System, citizens can rent bicycles from automated docking stations placed across the city and return them at any station, reducing the need for private vehicles. This initiative has led to a 20% reduction in traffic and a significant decrease in carbon emissions. The city is known for its sustainable urban transport efforts and was one of the first in India to adopt this system. Identify City Y.
Pune