Climate Change Impacts Quiz

What is the main challenge for water availability, food production, and livelihoods due to climate change?

• Rise in global temperature

• Growing challenges for water availability, food production, and livelihoods

• Decrease in greenhouse gas emissions

• Increase in wildlife population

What is the projected increase in the percentage of the population exposed to deadly heat stress by the end of the century?

• 50-70%

• 48-76%

• 30-50%

• 20-40%

What is the projected increase in the number of days with climatically stressful conditions for outdoor workers by century’s end in some parts of South Asia, tropical sub-Saharan Africa, and parts of Central and South America if the world warms more than 4°C by 2100?

• Up to 250 workdays per year

• Up to 200 workdays per year

• Up to 150 workdays per year

• Up to 100 workdays per year

What is the projected increase in the number of people at risk from coastal-specific climate hazards by mid-century?

• More than 1 billion

• Approximately 1.5 billion

• Around 750 million

• Less than 500 million

What is the projected increase in the number of people suffering from hunger in 2050 under a high vulnerability-high warming scenario?

• Up to 60 million

• Up to 20 million

• Up to 40 million

• Up to 80 million

What is the projected increase in the number of children with severe stunting by approximately 1.4 million by 2050 under 2.1°C of warming due to malnutrition?

• 1.4 million

• 1.8 million

• 1.2 million

• 1.6 million

What is the projected increase in poverty and inequality due to climate change?

• Decrease in poverty and inequality

• Increase in poverty and inequality

• No change in poverty and inequality

• Stagnation in poverty and inequality

What is the projected increase in involuntary migration of people due to climate change?

• No increase in migration

• Slight increase in migration

• Significant increase in migration

• Moderate increase in migration

What is the projected increase in temperature-related incidences of vector-borne, water-borne, and food-borne diseases such as dengue, malaria, cholera, and Rift Valley Fever?

• Moderate increase in disease incidences

• Slight increase in disease incidences

• No increase in disease incidences

• Significant increase in disease incidences

What is the positive news mentioned in the text regarding climate risks?

• Risks can be reduced by increasing greenhouse gas emissions

• Risks can be reduced by taking urgent action to limit global warming and by strengthening adaptation efforts

• Risks cannot be reduced

• Risks can be reduced by ignoring climate change