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WorksheetsConfronting Climate Change
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Under the Kyoto protocol, the first international climate change treaty, how much, on average, did industrialised nations pledge to reduce their annual greenhouse gas emissions by?
4.5% by 2015 compared to 1990
5.2% by 2012 compared to 1990
6.8% by 2012 compared to 1990
What does the UN programme REDD stand for?
Ratifying Emissions for the Determination of International Declarations
Recognised Executive for Drought and Disasters
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation
Realising that Everything is a Dreadful Disaster
What is the goal of the 2015 Paris climate accord?
Limit global warming to well below 1C
Limit global warming to well below 4C
Limit global warming to well below 2C
Eradicate fossil fuels
You may know that China is the biggest emitter of the greenhouse gas CO2 in the world, but what percentage of total global emissions did the country produce in 2019?
8.5 per cent
17.8 per cent
30.4 percent
So far, the strongest impacts of climate change have been observed in:
Northern latitudes
The tropics
Southern latitudes
All latitudes equally
What percentage of scientists agree that climate change is likely generated by human activities?
37%
97%
100%
1%
2019 was the warmest year on record.
True
False
True or False. Of all major components that contribute to radiative forcing of climate (Greenhouse gases, Ozone, albedo, aerosols, stratospheric water vapor, contrails, solar irradiance, land use), Greenhouse gases currently have the largest contribution to positive forcing (warming).
True
False
Out of the 197 Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), how many have ratified the Paris Agreement?
175
189
197
Who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his/her contributions to climate action?
Greta Thunberg
Al Gore
Malala Yousafzai
Beyonce
_______ accounts for about two-thirds of all greenhouse gases (GHG) which trap heat in the atmosphere and causes the planet to become warmer.
Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
Methane
Nitrous Oxide
Which treaty acts as a framework for international cooperation to combat climate change by limiting average global temperature increases and the resulting climate change, and coping with impacts?
ICERD
ICCPR
UNFCCC
What is the supreme decision-making body of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)?
Conference of the Parties (COP)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
United Nations Environment Programme
What 1995 Protocol legally binds developed country Parties to emission reduction targets? This Protocol's first commitment period started in 2008 and ended in 2012. The second commitment period began on 1 January 2013 and will end in 2020.
New York Protocol
The Hague Protocol
Kyoto Protocol
What is the most abundant greenhouse gas in the atmosphere?
Carbon dioxide
Methane
Water vapor
Oxygen
Which of the following is the most potent greenhouse gas?
Methane
Carbon dioxide
Ozone
There is more Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere today than at any point in the last 800,000 years
True
False
Whether we manage to contain the warming to 2 or to 1.5 degrees makes a big difference. One of the consequences of this half degree Celsius is that...
Papua New Guinea must be completely evacuated
Antarctica becomes ice-free
all corals die
If man-made climate change continues as before, how many climate refugees (estimated) will have to leave their country by 2040?
60 million people
90 million people
140 million people
Climate scientists talk about tipping elements, which have far-reaching effects on the global climate. Which of the following phenomena is NOT one of them?
The thawing of the permafrost soil in Russia
Methane seeps from the sea floor
The expansion of the deserts
