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Green Events Tool (GET)

2022 SEP 22

Preliminary   > Environment and Ecology   >   Global warming   >   Climate change

Why in news?

  • GORD, UNFCCC and UNEP have developed an online Green Events Tool (GET).

About Green Events Tool (GET):

  • The Green Events Tool (GET) is an integrated web-based assessment platform conceived and designed to evaluate the sustainability and environmental performance of events.
  • It is developed, hosted and maintained by UNEP, the UNFCCC secretariat and the Gulf Organisation for Research & Development (GORD).
  • It will help in calculating the carbon footprint for any planned event at its planning stages itself and recommends solutions for lowering the footprint as well as suggesting carbon credit for unavoidable ones.
  • This platform was first introduced at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland in 2021.

PRACTICE QUESTION:

Consider the following statements regarding ‘Green Events Tool (GET)’:

1. It will help in calculating the carbon footprint for any planned event

2. It is developed by ‘The Climate Group’

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

(a) 1 only

(b) 2 only

(c) Both 1 and 2

(d) Neither 1 nor 2

                        C

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