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Climate Change 101 Recap

Multiple Choice

Fighting climate change can help improve livelihoods.

• Fact

• Fiction

FACT

Natural climate solutions (such as reforestation) could,

at the global level, create 80 million jobs, bring 1 billion people out of poverty and add US$ 2.3 trillion in productive growth. (UNFCCC)

Multiple Choice

"Building sea walls" is what type of climate change response?

• Adaptation

• Mitigation

• Both

• None

Adaptation

• Building sea walls allows us to bear the brunt of typhoons and storm surges, and makes our barangays more resilient to floods and and rising sea levels.

• Brgy. Sta. Rita Aplaya, in Batangas City, have sea walls.

Multiple Choice

Climate Change is a problem of the future.

• Fact

• Fiction

FICTION

• The time to cut our emissions is NOW.

• The world’s leading climate scientists warned that we only have 12 years to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius to avoid climate breakdown.

Multiple Choice

"We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money, and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!"

This is emotional speech was made by Al Gore in 2019.

• Fact

• Fiction

FICTION

• Greta Thunberg's famous line in her speech at a UN Forum in 2019.

• In August 2018, Thunberg began the school climate strikes and public speeches

• Time Person of the Year (2019)

Multiple Choice

"Reducing or recycling water use due to drought" is what type of Climate Change response?

• Adaptation

• Mitigation

• Both

• None

Adaptation

• In the Philippines, one of our biggest environmental concerns is water scarcity in the future. About 9 million Filipinos lack access to safe water (Water.org).

• Rain water, sewage water, flood water, among others, are recycled to avoid water waste.

• Many companies and private sectors (luxury resorts, malls, hospitals) in the Philippines are doing just that already (Zuellig Building-Makati City, Asian Development Bank-Mandaluyong).

Multiple Choice

The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) is the agency that coordinates national climate policy and leads international climate negotiations under the Office of the President

• Fact

• Fiction

FICTION

• It's the Climate Change Commission.

• It is the lead policy-making body of the government tasked to coordinate, monitor and evaluate the programs and action plans of the government relating to climate change pursuant to the Climate Change Act of 2009 provisions (RA 9729)

Multiple Choice

The Philippines is one of the world's top producers of geothermal energy.

• Fact

• Fiction

FACT

• In 2019, the Philippines is among the top 3 countries in installed geothermal capacity at around 1.93 Gigawatts (out of the global 13.93 GW). The other top countries are the US with 2.56 GW, and Indonesia with 2.13 GW. (International Renewable Energy Agency)

• Energy Development Corporation (EDC), is the largest in the world in terms of vertically integrated geothermal company, owing to its operations in Leyte, Bac-man, Negros, and Mt. Apo.

Multiple Choice

"Planting Trees/Reforestation" is what is the type of climate change response?

• Adaptation

• Mitigation

• Both

• None

Both: Adaptation or Mitigation

• It is used both as an adaptation strategy (conversion of land areas to trees as flood control)

• and a mitigation strategy (reforesting forests to increase natural carbon.

Multiple Choice

"The use of clean & renewable energy" is what is the type of climate change response?

• Adaptation

• Mitigation

• Both

• None

Mitigation

• Replacing GHG-emitting fossil fuels (coal and oil), with clean, renewable energies (solar, wind and geothermal) became “the cheapest form of new electricity generation across the world” in 2019.

Multiple Choice

"Retrofitting old buildings to make them more energy efficient" is what type of climate change response?

• Adaptation

• Mitigation

• Both

• None

Mitigation

• Existing buildings account for most of the energy used in the building sector.

• In Asian cities, buildings often account for a higher percentage of GHG emissions than the worldwide average.

• Retrofitting of existing buildings offers significant opportunities for reducing global energy consumption and GHG emission.