With reference to Lifestyle for the Environment (LiFE), which of the following statements is/are correct ?
1. It was launched in June 2022.
2. Its idea was proposed at the COP 25 in Madrid, Spain.
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With reference to Lifestyle for the Environment (LiFE), which of the following statements is/are correct ?
1. It was launched in June 2022.
2. Its idea was proposed at the COP 25 in Madrid, Spain.
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Correct — D, Only 1. Statement 1 is true and statement 2 is false, so only the first survives. On 5 June 2022 — World Environment Day — the Prime Minister launched the LiFE Movement, 'Lifestyle for Environment', globally by video conference with UN Secretary-General António Guterres taking part, together with a worldwide call for ideas and papers on shifting individual behaviour. Statement 2 fails on both the conference and the city: the idea was proposed at COP26 in Glasgow on 1 November 2021, in India's National Statement, the same speech that carried the Panchamrit pledges including net-zero by 2070. COP25 was held in Madrid in December 2019 under Chile's presidency — two years before the LiFE idea was announced — so pairing LiFE with COP25 Madrid is the planted error. The chronology completes with the formal launch of Mission LiFE on 20 October 2022 at the Statue of Unity in Kevadia, Gujarat, again in the presence of the UN Secretary-General.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) The exact inversion of the truth. Statement 2 is the one that fails — the LiFE idea came from COP26 in Glasgow in November 2021, not COP25 in Madrid — while statement 1, the June 2022 launch, is correct.  (b) Right about the launch, wrong about the origin. A candidate who remembers only that 'LiFE was announced at a climate COP' will accept statement 2, but the COP number and host city are both wrong: COP25 was Madrid in December 2019, whereas the proposal was made at Glasgow's COP26 on 1 November 2021.  (c) This throws away a correct statement. The LiFE Movement was indeed launched in June 2022 — on World Environment Day, 5 June 2022 — so statement 1 stands even though statement 2 does not.

Concept: Mission LiFE is India's attempt to move climate policy down from states and industries to the level of individual behaviour — replacing what the Glasgow speech called mindless and destructive consumption with mindful and deliberate utilisation. It is coordinated by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and aims to mobilise at least a billion Indians and other global citizens to take simple pro-planet actions between 2022 and 2028. Its chronology has three markers that a candidate must keep apart: the idea (COP26, Glasgow, 1 November 2021), the global movement (5 June 2022) and the formal mission launch (20 October 2022, Statue of Unity, Kevadia).

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