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What is the correct value/answer for Vulnerability refers to?
A. Conditions that increase susceptibility to harm
B. Export earnings
C. The hazard itself only
D. Foreign reserves
Correct Answer: A
Vulnerability includes physical, social, economic and environmental factors that increase susceptibility.
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What is the correct value/answer for Hazard is best defined as?
A. A budget deficit
B. The same thing as vulnerability
C. A potentially damaging event or process
D. A tax receipt
Correct Answer: C
A hazard is a potentially harmful physical event, phenomenon or human activity.
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What is the correct value/answer for Resilience in disaster management refers to?
A. A trade surplus
B. Only insurance premiums
C. Ability to withstand, adapt to and recover from shocks
D. Absence of all hazards
Correct Answer: C
Resilience concerns the capacity of systems and communities to resist, absorb, adapt and recover.
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What is the correct value/answer for Adaptation in climate policy primarily aims to?
A. Set customs duties
B. Increase fossil-fuel dependence
C. Manage foreign reserves
D. Reduce vulnerability to climate impacts
Correct Answer: D
Adaptation reduces exposure and vulnerability and builds resilience to climate impacts.
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What is the correct value/answer for Mitigation in climate policy primarily aims to?
A. Measure trade deficits
B. Only respond after disasters
C. Reduce greenhouse gas emissions or enhance sinks
D. Increase vulnerability
Correct Answer: C
Climate mitigation addresses the causes of climate change by reducing emissions and enhancing removals.
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What is the correct value/answer for The Paris Agreement is primarily associated with?
A. Global climate action
B. International trade tariffs
C. Nuclear regulation
D. Foreign exchange reserves
Correct Answer: A
The Paris Agreement is the international climate treaty focused on limiting warming and strengthening adaptation.
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What is the correct value/answer for The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction covers?
A. 2020-2025
B. 2015-2030
C. 2030-2050
D. 2000-2010
Correct Answer: B
The Sendai Framework is the global DRR framework for 2015-2030.
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What is the correct value/answer for One pillar of anticipatory action is?
A. Replacing PDMAs with banks
B. Eliminating all weather monitoring
C. Banning local response
D. Risk information, early warning and trigger systems
Correct Answer: D
The strategy includes risk information, early warning and trigger systems among its five pillars.
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What is the correct value/answer for Pakistan National Anticipatory Action Strategy covers?
A. 2020-2025
B. 2026 only
C. 2026-2030
D. 2031-2040
Correct Answer: C
NDMA lists the Pakistan National Anticipatory Action Strategy 2026-2030.
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What is the correct value/answer for Anticipatory action means?
A. Ignoring forecasts
B. Only post-disaster compensation
C. Waiting until recovery is complete
D. Acting before forecast hazards escalate into disasters
Correct Answer: D
Pakistan's National Anticipatory Action Strategy uses forecasts and triggers for pre-agreed early action.
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What is the correct value/answer for Early warning systems are primarily intended to?
A. Replace all infrastructure
B. Prevent every hazard from occurring
C. Measure tax revenue
D. Enable timely action before or during hazards
Correct Answer: D
Early warning combines risk knowledge, monitoring, communication and preparedness to enable protective action.
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What is the correct value/answer for Rising temperatures can increase GLOF risk by?
A. Eliminating glaciers instantly
B. Accelerating glacial melt
C. Reducing all river flow permanently
D. Stopping all precipitation
Correct Answer: B
Higher temperatures can accelerate glacial melt and increase glacial-lake instability.
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What is the correct value/answer for NDMA Summer Contingency Plan 2026 notes summer broadly from?
A. January to March
B. November to February
C. June to July only
D. April to October
Correct Answer: D
The plan describes Pakistan's summer season broadly as April to October.
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What is the correct value/answer for Pakistan's summer season hazards highlighted by NDMA include?
A. Only snowfall
B. Only earthquakes
C. Heatwaves, GLOFs, flash floods and drought
D. Only tsunamis
Correct Answer: C
NDMA's Summer Contingency Plan highlights multiple climate-induced summer hazards.
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What is the correct value/answer for GLOF stands for?
A. Glacier Level Observation Framework
B. General Local Overflow Flood
C. Global Land Ocean Flow
D. Glacial Lake Outburst Flood
Correct Answer: D
GLOFs are sudden releases of water from glacial lakes.
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What is the correct value/answer for CCA stands for?
A. Climate Change Adaptation
B. Central Climate Authority
C. Climate Carbon Accounting
D. Crisis Control Assessment
Correct Answer: A
CCA refers to adjustment to actual or expected climate impacts to reduce harm or exploit beneficial opportunities.
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What is the correct value/answer for DRR stands for?
A. Disaster Revenue Ratio
B. Disaster Risk Reduction
C. District Relief Revenue
D. Development Reserve Requirement
Correct Answer: B
DRR aims to prevent new and reduce existing disaster risk and manage residual risk.
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What is the correct value/answer for BBB in disaster recovery means?
A. Budget Before Borrowing
B. Build Back Better
C. Bank-Based Budgeting
D. Basic Border Barrier
Correct Answer: B
NDRP 2026 places Build Back Better at the heart of resilient recovery.
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What is the correct value/answer for NDMP 2026-2030 stands for?
A. National Drought Monitoring Policy
B. National Disaster Medical Programme
C. National Development Monetary Plan
D. National Disaster Management Plan 2026-2030
Correct Answer: D
NDMA identifies the National Disaster Management Plan 2026-2030 as a comprehensive planning framework.
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What is the correct value/answer for NDRP 2026 stands for?
A. National Development Revenue Plan
B. National Disaster Response Plan 2026
C. New Disaster Regulation Policy
D. National Drought Recovery Programme only
Correct Answer: B
NDRP 2026 provides national guidelines for disaster response activities.