Current Affairs Quiz Today – 23rd Feb 2021

ANS: (A) 1 and 3 only

Explanation:

• Animal Husbandry Infrastructure Development Fund (AHIDF) has been set up with an outlay of Rs. 15,000 crore as a part of the 20 lakh crore stimulus package under the Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan.
• The AHIDF would promote infrastructure investments in dairy, meat processing and animal feed plants.
• Farmer producer organizations (FPOs), MSMEs, Section 8 companies, private companies and individual entrepreneurs would be eligible to benefit from the fund.
• Beneficiaries will have to contribute a 10 per cent margin towards the proposed infra project and the rest 90 per cent would be a loan component by scheduled banks.

ANS: (D) 1, 2 and 3

Explanation:

• Comprehensive Economic Cooperation and Partnership Agreement (CECPA) provides for an institutional mechanism to encourage and improve trade between two countries.
• India recently signed the CECPA with Mauritius.
• It is India’s first such free trade agreement with an African country.

ANS: (C) 2 only

Explanation:

• The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) was established in July 1989 by a Group of Seven (G-7) countries in a Summit held in Paris.
• FATF issues a grey list, officially referred to as Jurisdictions Under Increased Monitoring. The countries in FATF Black List are “High-Risk Jurisdictions subject to a Call for Action”.
• The first FATF blacklist was issued in 2000 with an initial list of 15 countries.

ANS: (A) 1 only

Explanation

• According to the World Health Organization (WHO), a carbon footprint is a measure of the impact people’s activities have on the amount of carbon dioxide (CO₂) produced through the burning of fossil fuels and is expressed as a weight of CO₂ emissions produced in tonnes. Hence, statement 1 is correct.
  • It is usually measured as tons of CO₂ emitted per year, a number that can be supplemented by tons of CO₂-equivalent gases, including methane, nitrous oxide, and other greenhouse gases.
• Carbon footprint is different from ecological footprint. While the carbon footprint measures the emission of gases that contribute to global warming, the ecological footprint focuses on measuring the use of bio-productive space. Hence, statement 2 is not correct.