{"id":23195,"date":"2024-05-09T06:14:05","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T00:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=23195"},"modified":"2025-04-07T00:53:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T19:23:34","slug":"antarctic-treaty-consultative-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/antarctic-treaty-consultative-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is pivotal in the international community&#8217;s ongoing efforts to <strong>safeguard Antarctica&#8217;s fragile ecosystem<\/strong> and promote scientific research in the region.<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>convened annually<\/strong> under the <strong>Antarctic Treaty System<\/strong>, these meetings serve as forums for Antarctic Treaty Consultative Parties and other stakeholders to address Antarctica&#8217;s pressing environmental, scientific, and governance issues.<\/li>\n<li><strong>What is the CEP?<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It was established under the <strong>Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty (the Madrid Protocol) in 1991<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The CEP <strong>advises the ATCM<\/strong> on environmental protection and conservation in Antarctica.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key facts about the Antarctic Treaty<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It was signed in 1959 and entered into force in 1961.<\/li>\n<li>It established Antarctica as a region dedicated to peaceful purposes, scientific cooperation, and environmental protection. Over the years, the Treaty has garnered widespread support, with 56 countries currently party to it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Provisions of the treaty<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Antarctica shall be used for peaceful purposes only<\/li>\n<li>Freedom of scientific investigation in Antarctica and cooperation toward that end\u2026 shall continue<\/li>\n<li>Scientific observations and results from Antarctica shall be exchanged and made freely available<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>India<\/strong> has been a Consultative Party to the Antarctic Treaty <strong>since 1983.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It participates in the decision-making process along with other 28 Consultative Parties to the Antarctic Treaty.\n<ul>\n<li>India\u2019s first Antarctic research station, <strong>Dakshin Gangotri<\/strong>, was established in 1983.<\/li>\n<li>At present, India operates two year-round research stations: Maitri (1989) and Bharati (2012).<\/li>\n<li>The permanent research stations facilitate Indian Scientific Expeditions to Antarctica, which have been ongoing annually since 1981.<\/li>\n<li>In 2022, <strong>India enacted the Antarctic Act<\/strong>, reaffirming its commitment to the Antarctic Treaty.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Antarctic Treaty Secretariat<\/strong> (ATS) serves as the administrative hub for the Antarctic Treaty System.<\/li>\n<li>ATS was established in 2004 and <strong>coordinates the ATCM and CEP meetings<\/strong>, reposits and disseminates information, and facilitates diplomatic communication, exchanges, and negotiations related to Antarctic governance and management.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is the mandate of the Arctic Council?<\/h3>\n<p>It is to promote cooperation among Arctic states on common issues, particularly on sustainable development and environmental protection.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/world\/climate-change\/india-atcm-research-station-antarctica-9316472\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">India to formally convey to ATCM its plans to built new research station in Antarctica<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting is pivotal in the international community&#8217;s ongoing efforts to safeguard Antarctica&#8217;s fragile ecosystem and promote scientific research in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23196,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23195","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}