Climate Change Mitigation & Adaptation

What is the role of the IPCC?

(Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)

• Monitor and Access all global science related to climate change

• Conduct research based on understanding the cause and effects of climate change

• Climate Peacekeepers

• To bring us down with all the sad news about climate change

Which of these isn't a strategy to prevent the impacts of climate change?

• Scatter iron, nitrates or phosphates on oceans to increase algal bloom

• Release sulphur dioxide from airplanes to increase global dimming

• Send mirrors into space between earth and sun to deflect solar radiation

• Genetically altering people to be more resistant to impacts of climate change

When was the first international conference to discuss the environment?

• 2001

• 1988

• 1979

• 2000

Which of these is an example of a mitigation strategy? (There is more than one correct answer)

• Use of alternative energy sources to fossil fuels

• Increasing the amount of photosynthesis

• Migrating to other areas to avoid effects of climate change

• Vaccinating against waterbourne diseases

What was the target of the 2015 Paris Agreement?

• To limit global warming well below two degrees celcius compared to pre-industrial levels

• To limit global warming well below one degrees celcius compared to pre-industrial levels

• To limit global warming well below five degrees celcius compared to pre-industrial levels

• To limit global warming well below ten degrees celcius compared to pre-industrial levels

If part of the cost to the environement of fossil fuel use were added to the price of fuel, the most likely effect would be that...

• Global warming would increase

• More fossil fuels would be produced

• Use of renewable energies would decrease

• Consumption of fossil fuels would decrease

Which of these is an example of an adaptation strategy?

• Build to resist flooding

• Reduction of energy consumption

• Using more biomass as a source of fuel

• Capturing more methane from landfill sites

To limit warming to 1.5 degrees celcius pre-industrial levels global emissions would have to be reduced by ___ before 2030

• 50%

• 25%

• 100%

• 10%