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Topic Carbon pricing
Asked 2 times across 2 UPSC exams over 4 years (2020–2024), peaking in 2020.
Key insights
- Most tested in CSE — 1 of 2 PYQs
- Most asked in 2020
- Recurs across 2 years (2020–2024)
How it travelled across exams
First appearance in each exam — the same idea, reframed.
CSE 2020 → CAPF 2024
How the concept evolved
Rising — more than half its appearances (2 of 2) are since 2016.
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Sample questions
You've seen the pattern — here are a few of the actual PYQs.
CAPF2024
Which of the following statements about CBAM (Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanisms) is/are correct?
- These are an emerging set of trade policy tools to allow movement of carbon-intensive economic activity from a jurisdiction having less stringent climate policy to a jurisdiction having stringent climate policy
- These are meant to increase the environmental effectiveness of climate policies Select the answer
using the code given below:
- A 1 only
- B 2 only ✓
- C Both 1 and 2
- D Neither 1 nor 2
✓ Correct answer: (B)
Environment & Ecology › Climate Change
CSE2020
Which one of the following statements best describes the term 'Social Cost of Carbon' ? It is a measure, in monetary value, of the
- A long-term damage done by a tonne of CO₂ emissions in a given year. ✓
- B requirement of fossil fuels for a country to provide goods and services to its citizens, based on the burning of those fuels.
- C efforts put in by a climate refugee to adapt to live in a new place.
- D contribution of an individual person to the carbon footprint on the planet Earth.
✓ Correct answer: (A)
Environment & Ecology › Climate Change
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