UPSC Prelims Practice Questions — Reading for a warming world: books that rethink nature, development and survival

Q1. World Environment Day is led and coordinated at the global level by which one of the following United Nations entities?

  • A. United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
  • B. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
  • C. Secretariat of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
  • D. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

Q2. The first globally applicable standard for designing and verifying Nature-based Solutions, launched in 2020, was developed by which one of the following organisations?

  • A. International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
  • B. United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
  • C. World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)
  • D. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

Q3. The Stockholm Declaration, adopted at the 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment that established UNEP, contained how many principles?

  • A. 26
  • B. 27
  • C. 17
  • D. 20

Q4. The headquarters of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) at Nairobi is notable as which one of the following?

  • A. The first UN headquarters to be located in the Global South
  • B. The largest UN Secretariat building anywhere in the world
  • C. The only UN programme headquartered outside a national capital
  • D. The first UN agency headquarters established outside the United States

Q5. Peepal Baba (Swami Prem Parivartan), author of 'Ghosts on Peepal Trees', is the founder of which one of the following tree-planting organisations in India?

  • A. Give Me Trees Trust
  • B. SankalpTaru Foundation
  • C. Grow-Trees.com
  • D. Isha Foundation's Cauvery Calling

Q6. According to 2026 reports, the Give Me Trees Trust has facilitated the plantation and preservation of over how many trees in its roughly 44 years of work?

  • A. Over 20 million
  • B. Over 2 million
  • C. Over 200 million
  • D. Over 5 million