3.Global Governance (Environmental)

Question 1

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

Answer 1

An international environmental treaty negotiated at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992.

Question 2

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

Answer 2

UN body set up as an internationally accepted authority on climate change.

Question 3

Global Commons

Answer 3

Areas and resources that are un-owned and consequently beyond national jurisdiction.

Question 4

Tragedy of the commons

Answer 4

Situation within a shared-resource system where individual users acting independently and rationally according to their own self-interest behave contrary to the common good of all users by depleting that resource.

Question 5

Sustainability

Answer 5

The capacity to endure

Question 6

Sustainable Development

Answer 6

Development that meets the needs of the present, without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.