Example Assessment

Zero carbon means causing or resulting in no net release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere

• True

• False

If we stopped burning fossil fuels today, what would happen to the climate?

• Earth's average temperature would continue to rise.

• Temperatures would continue to warm, then begin to cool down in 100 years or more.

• Temperatures would fluctuate, but stay the same on average.

• Temperatures would stop increasing once greenhouse gas concentrations stopped increasing.

How fast to we need to stop burning fossil fuels to limit global temperature rise to 2 degrees C?

• 2100

• 2040

• it doesn't matter

• We should have stopped it in 2000s

How many people in the world are vulnerable to the effects of climate change?

• 4 million

• 4 billion

• 40 million

• None of the above

Which of the following is not a fossil fuel?

• Coal

• Wood

• Natural gas

• Oil

In which European city did 196 nations agree on a landmark global plan to curb climate change in December 2015?

• Paris

• Vienna

• London

• Georgia

A carbon footprint is a way in which we can measure the effect the amount of carbon we each use has on the environment.

• True

• False

Which of the following is not a greenhouse gas?

(1 Point)

• CO2

• Methane

• Watervapour

• Nitrous oxide

Short term goals towards deacrbonising Europe are:- 

• Energy efficient housing

• Electric vehicles

• Phase out carbon

• All of the above

The Paris agreement set new phase in climate action by setting the target of keeping a global temperature rise this century to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 °C.

• True

• False