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JAIIB IE&IFS Unit 10 — Climate Change & Sustainable Development Goals: Free MCQs with Explanations

By Swarnakshi Jha (ex-banker) · Updated 20 September 2026 · Paper 1 of the November 2026 cycle (1 November 2026)

This page is a free slice of our JAIIB IE&IFS question bank for Unit 10 — Climate Change & Sustainable Development Goals (Module A — Indian Economic Architecture). The Mock Centre holds 78 questions on this unit alone, every one with a why-right / why-wrong explanation; below are the facts examiners keep returning to, five of those questions to try, and the traps that cost marks.

IE&IFS · Module A78 MCQs in the Mock Centre5 free belowPaper on 1 November 2026

Key facts examiners test from this unit

  1. SDGs: 17 goals/169 targets; proposed Rio+20 (June 2012), adopted Sept 2015, timeframe 2016– 2030; superseded MDGs; SDG 1 poverty, 5 gender, 13 climate, 17 partnerships; NITI Aayog coordinates; SDG India Index 57→71.
  2. Climate change: long-term shifts; human-driven since the 1800s; 'poverty multiplier'; fossil-fuel combustion; Sendai Framework 2015–2030 (131 countries); 222 first NDCs.
  3. Numbers: −45% by 2030 (vs 2010) for 1.5°C; current pledges → +14%; World Bank — India GDP −2.8%/yr by 2050.

5 free practice questions — tap an option

Five basic questions from this unit. Answers lock on the first tap, exactly as in the exam, and a short explanation opens underneath. The Mock Centre adds the moderate and tough questions, why every other option is wrong, the concept capsule and the exam tip — with your score and revision dates tracked.

Question 1 of 5
Total targets under the SDGs:
Why (c): Total targets under the SDGs: 169 — roughly ten measurable targets under each of the 17 goals.
Question 2 of 5
CLIMATE CHANGE is defined as:
Why (b): CLIMATE CHANGE means LONG-TERM shifts in temperatures and weather patterns — natural in part, but human-driven since industrialisation.
Question 3 of 5
India's net-zero target year is:
Why (d): India's net-zero target year is 2070 — announced at Glasgow as Panchamrit's fifth pledge.
Question 4 of 5
Coordinating the SDGs in India is entrusted to:
Why (b): Coordinating the SDGs in India is entrusted to NITI AAYOG — the nodal body mapping schemes to goals.
Question 5 of 5
CSR's legal basis is Companies Act 2013 Section:
Why (a): CSR's legal basis is SECTION 135 of the Companies Act 2013 — the mandatory-CSR provision.
0 of 5 answered.

Traps in this unit

Confusable AConfusable BThe difference
17169Goals vs targets
June 2012Sept 2015Proposed (Rio+20) vs adopted
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