Climate Resilience — Prelims Strategy

Prelims Strategy

For Prelims, focus on factual recall and conceptual clarity. Master definitions of key terms like resilience, adaptation, exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity. Memorize the names of relevant NAPCC missions, their objectives, and associated government schemes (e.

g., PMKSY, AMRUT, Smart Cities Mission). Pay attention to landmark judgments related to environmental protection that implicitly support resilience. Current affairs related to new policies, funding allocations (NAFCC, GCF projects), and specific state-level initiatives (e.

g., Heat Action Plans) are high-yield areas. Practice MCQs that differentiate between resilience, adaptation, and mitigation, and those that test the components of resilience. Understand the institutional framework (NDMA, MoEFCC) and their roles.

Also build Paper II skills

Climate data, pollution metrics, and treaty timelines are natural practice for CSAT data interpretation and careful reading. CSAT hub.

• Data interpretation
• Correlation vs causation
• Estimation techniques