UPSC Previous Year Question | Prelims GS | 2018

With reference to the 'Global Alliance for Climate-Smart Agriculture (GACSA)', which of the following statements is/are correct? 1. GACSA is an outcome of the Climate Summit held in Paris in 2015. 2. Membership of GACSA does not create any binding obligations. 3. India was instrumental in the creation of GACSA. Select the correct answer using the code given below:

  1. 1 and 3 only
  2. 2 only
  3. 2 and 3 only
  4. 1, 2 and 3

Answer

Correct Answer

2 only

Explanation

GACSA is a voluntary, multi-stakeholder platform launched at the UN Secretary-General's Climate Summit in New York in 2014 (not Paris 2015), and membership creates no binding obligations. India was not instrumental in its creation.

Topics: climate change initiatives, environment and ecology, global alliance for climate-smart agriculture (gacsa), international climate alliances