Dramatic steps such as spraying aerosols into the stratosphere to reduce solar radiation or building large machines to draw carbon directly from ambient air are examples of what? correct answers Geoengineering
Feedback: Geoengineering involves large-scale manipulations of the physical, chemical,...
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Dramatic steps such as spraying aerosols into the stratosphere to reduce solar radiation or
building large machines to draw carbon directly from ambient air are examples of what? correct
answers Geoengineering
Feedback: Geoengineering involves large-scale manipulations of the physical, chemical, and
biological systems of the planet.
Select the region that has had the biggest growth in carbon emissions since 1990. correct answers
China
Feedback: China has quickly become the leading emitter of carbon.
Which of the following are important principles in international law when it comes to the
environment? correct answers - Good Neighbor Principle
Feedback: Cooperation should be encouraged on environmental issues.
- Preventative Action Principle
Feedback: States should act within their own borders to stop problems before they start.
- No Significant Harm Principle
Feedback: States should not start new practices or policies that will knowingly harm the
environment of another state.
What is an example of a negative externality? correct answers Carbon emissions from a power
plant contributes to global warming.
Feedback: Many of the economically beneficial activities that humans participate in have
negative externalities for the environment or society.
Put these important moments in the history of the environmental movement in chronological
order. correct answers - Rachel Carson publishes her best seller, Silent Spring, helping start the
environmental movement in the United States.
Feedback: The book was published in 1962 and created a new public impetus for environmental
concerns.
- The Montreal Protocol helps stop the depletion of the ozone layer.
Feedback: The growing hole in the ozone layer became an international crisis in the 1980s and
has since mostly been solved.
- The Kyoto Protocol creates the first major international agreement on climate change.
Feedback: The Kyoto Protocol was drafted in 1997.
- The Paris Agreement sees most nations of the world agree to make public their climate change
plans at least every five years.
Feedback: The Paris Agreement was settled at the end of 2015.
__________ involves trying to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and enhance carbon sinks,
whereas __________ involves preparing for and remediating the effects of climate change.
correct answers First Line = Mitigation
, Feedback: Mitigation includes many efforts around greening the energy supply.
Second Line = Adaption
Feedback: Adaptation accepts that some climate change will happen and asks how we can best
prepare for that possibility.
Sort the following into whether they are primarily examples of mitigation or adaptation.
- Redesigning cities to reduce the likelihood of flooding
- Developing drought-resistant crops
- Requiring factories to use new technologies to reduce emissions
- The Paris Agreement
- The Kyoto Protocol correct answers - Redesigning cities to reduce the likelihood of flooding
= Adaption
Feedback: This would help reduce the harm of rising sea levels and harsher storms.
- Developing drought-resistant crops
= Adaption
Feedback: This would make it easier for society to feed itself in a post-climate change world.
- Requiring factories to use new technologies to reduce emissions
= Mitigation
Feedback: Reducing emissions is at the heart of mitigation strategies.
- The Paris Agreement
= Mitigation
Feedback: Most of the Paris Agreement focuses on carbon emissions reductions.
- The Kyoto Protocol
= Mitigation
Feedback: Most of the Kyoto Protocol is geared around ways to reduce carbon emissions.
Match the theoretical perspective with its proponents' approach to environmental issues.
- How political and scientific elites define environmental problems and solutions helps determine
how successful those solutions will be.
- Power and sovereignty considerations mean that international cooperation is unlikely to be
successful in regard to environmental issues.
- The interdependent international system can facilitate the kind of cooperation needed for
dealing with environmental concerns. correct answers - How political and scientific elites define
environmental problems and solutions helps determine how successful those solutions will be.
= Constructivism
Feedback: Constructivists put more emphasis on the power of language to shape outcomes than
the other perspectives.
- Power and sovereignty considerations mean that international cooperation is unlikely to be
successful in regard to environmental issues.
= Realism
Feedback: This is consistent with realist concerns over the survival of the state.
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