Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the code given below the Lists : List I (Climate Conference) / List II (Country) A. COP-26 - 1. Egypt B. COP-27 - 2. Azerbaijan C. COP-28 - 3. United Kingdom D. COP-29 - 4. UAE Code:
- (a)A-3, B-4, C-1, D-2
- (b)A-2, B-1, C-4, D-3
- (c)A-2, B-4, C-1, D-3
- (d)A-3, B-1, C-4, D-2
Correct — D, A-3, B-1, C-4, D-2. Walk the four sessions one at a time and the code writes itself. COP-26 sat at Glasgow from 31 October to 13 November 2021 and closed with the Glasgow Climate Pact, so A goes to 3, the United Kingdom. COP-27 sat at Sharm El-Sheikh in November 2022 and agreed to set up a loss and damage fund, so B goes to 1, Egypt. COP-28 sat at Expo City, Dubai from 30 November to 13 December 2023 and delivered the first Global Stocktake, so C goes to 4, the UAE. COP-29 had already been allotted to Baku when this paper was set, and it met there in November 2024, so D goes to 2, Azerbaijan. Only one code carries all four pairings.
- (a)A-3, B-4, C-1, D-2 — It anchors Glasgow and Baku correctly and then swaps the two middle hosts, sending COP-27 to the UAE and COP-28 to Egypt. The real order is Egypt first, Dubai a year later.
- (b)A-2, B-1, C-4, D-3 — Egypt and the UAE are placed correctly, but the two ends are inverted: this makes Baku the host of COP-26 and Glasgow the host of COP-29. Glasgow came first, in 2021.
- (c)A-2, B-4, C-1, D-3 — Every one of the four pairings is wrong. It inverts Glasgow with Baku and Egypt with the UAE at the same time, which is what happens if the list is read bottom to top.
COP is the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the treaty opened for signature at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992. The Parties meet once a year, and the presidency rotates among the five UN regional groups, which is why the venue moves across continents. The number is simply the count of sessions since Berlin hosted COP-1 in 1995.
A candidate who remembers only the headline outcome of each session can rebuild this table without memorising a list. Glasgow is tied to the coal 'phase-down' wording and the Glasgow Climate Pact; Sharm El-Sheikh is tied to the loss and damage fund; Dubai is tied to the first Global Stocktake and the call to transition away from fossil fuels. That gives three of the four rows, and the fourth follows because only one option is left. The paper was written before COP-29 met, so D rests on the host announced in advance rather than on an outcome.
- COP-26, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 2021 — the Glasgow Climate Pact, and the first COP text to name coal.
- COP-27, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, 2022 — agreement to establish a fund for loss and damage.
- COP-28, Dubai, UAE, 2023 — the first Global Stocktake, and the loss and damage fund operationalised.
- COP-29, Baku, Azerbaijan, November 2024 — agreed a new collective quantified goal on climate finance.
- COP-30 met at Belem, Brazil in November 2025, the first session held in the Amazon region.
Read the sessions in order and the hosts run United Kingdom, Egypt, UAE, Azerbaijan — that sequence alone rules out three of the four codes.
- Pairing a session with the country that led the negotiation rather than the country that hosted it.
- Assuming the rotation is alphabetical or regionally regular; it is negotiated session by session.
- Reading a match-list bottom to top, which here produces the all-wrong option (c).
A pure recall grid — the examiner wants four host countries in the right order, and every wrong code is built from one swap.
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is an international treaty drawn at
- (a) United Nations’ Conference on the Human Environment, Stockholm, 1972
- (b) UN Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro, 1992
- (c) World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, 2002
- (d) UN Climate Change Conference, Copenhagen, 2009
Answer(b) UN Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro, 1992
The parent treaty behind every session in this grid. The COPs numbered here are the annual meetings of the Parties to the convention opened for signature at Rio in 1992.
Which of the following statements is/are correct about 'Action for Climate Empowerment' (ACE)? 1. It is a term adopted by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. 2. This term is related to the Paris Agreement. Select the correct answer using the code given below:
- (a) 1 only
- (b) 2 only
- (c) Both 1 and 2
- (d) Neither 1 nor 2
Answer(c) Both 1 and 2
CAPF returns to the climate regime year after year. That item tests a programme created under the same convention whose annual sessions this grid asks you to place.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The first Global Stocktake under the Paris Agreement was concluded at which session of the Conference of the Parties?
- (a)COP-26
- (b)COP-27
- (c)COP-28
- (d)COP-29
Answer(c) COP-28 — the Dubai session of 2023 concluded the first Global Stocktake.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The decision to establish a fund for loss and damage was taken at the climate conference held in
- (a)Glasgow
- (b)Sharm El-Sheikh
- (c)Dubai
- (d)Baku
Answer(b) Sharm El-Sheikh — COP-27 in Egypt, 2022, agreed to set up the fund; it was operationalised at Dubai a year later.