Coping With Climate Change

Question 1

What are mitigation strategies

Answer 1

Involve taking action to reduce how much climate change occurs

Question 2

What are adaptation strategies

Answer 2

Involves taking action to reduce the impacts that the changes are having

Question 3

Is carbon tax an adaptation or mitigation strategy

Answer 3

Mitigation

Question 4

Explain carbon tax

Answer 4

Taxing companies/people who produce CO2

Increasing costs discourages over consumption of energy

Question 5

Is changing the energy mix an adaptation or mitigation strategy

Answer 5

Mitigation

Question 6

Explain changing the energy mix

Answer 6

I.e. lowering the proportion of energy made from fossil fuels and increasing energy from sources that produce less greenhouse gas emissions (nuclear)

Question 7

Is modified agricultural practices an adaptation or mitigation strategy

Answer 7

Mitigation

Question 8

Explain modified agricultural practices

Answer 8

Cut methane generation from farm animals eg developing new types of feed

Question 9

Are emission cutting technologies an adaptation or mitigation strategy

Answer 9

Mitigation

Question 10

Explain emission cutting technologies

Answer 10

Carbon capture and storage involves storing the CO2 produced using using methods like injecting it isn’t geological formations eg coal seams

Question 11

Are energy conservations an adaptation or mitigation strategy

Answer 11

Mitigation

Question 12

Explain energy conservation

Answer 12

Using less energy eg switching home appliances off when not at home

Question 13

Are waste strategies an adaptation or mitigation strategy

Answer 13

Increasing the amount of waste that is recycled, which should directly cute methane emissions from landfill sites

Question 14

Are lifestyle adaptations an adaptation or mitigation strategy

Answer 14

Adaptation

Question 15

Explain lifestyle adaptations

Answer 15

People adapt to the way they love to suit the new conditions eg planting new crops that will flourish in the new climatic conditions

Question 16

Is improved risk assessment an adaptation or mitigation strategy

Answer 16

Adaptation

Question 17

Explain improved risk assessment

Answer 17

Looking at the likelihood that people/property will be damaged by climate change impacts and evaluations the need for insurance policies

Question 18

Are food adaptations an adaptation or mitigation strategy

Answer 18

Adaptation

Question 19

Explain flood adaptations

Answer 19

Building physical defences such as flood barriers to reduce the impacts of flooding, and having better floor warning systems

Question 20

Is community awareness an adaptation or mitigation strategy

Answer 20

Adaptation

Question 21

Explain community awareness

Answer 21

Educating local communities on the potential impacts of climate change

Question 22

Which strategies need to be applied on a global scale

Answer 22

Changing energy mix, emission cutting technologies

Question 23

Which strategies can to be applied on a local scale

Answer 23

Community awareness, waste strategies

Question 24

Name a major global strategy

Answer 24

International agreements

Question 25

Example of a strategy which would only have a small impact on their own

Answer 25

Energy conservation in homes

Question 26

Explain strategy limitations that reduce their effectiveness

Answer 26

Eg building physical flood defences works whilst flooding remains below a certain point If sea levels continue to rise, defences (such as the Thames barrier) will not be high enough to cope with higher flood waters

Question 27

Explain strategy side effects that reduce their effectiveness

Answer 27

Eg changing the energy mix would reduce emissions but using more nuclear power would produce more nuclear waste, which is expensive and dangerous to dispose of

Question 28

Explain how businesses could impact on trying to cope with climate change

Answer 28

Can be responsible for contributing to climate change or can help slow it down May lobby governments to reduce restrictions -continue producing May help be investing in new technologies to combat climate change

Question 29

Explain how NGB's could impact on trying to cope with climate change

Answer 29

Many different roles/views depending on their purpose/members Eg Greenpeace tries to persuade governments to recognise/take action against climate change

Question 30

Explain how communities/individuals could impact on trying to cope with climate change

Answer 30

Strategies developed on larger levels and carried out at a smaller levels Eg governments encouraging recycling but actually done by individuals

Question 31

Explain how governments could impact on trying to cope with climate change

Answer 31

Create strategies on international, national and local scales

Question 32

What is the Kyoto protocol

Answer 32

International agreement between over 180 counties to monitor and cut greenhouse gas emissions by 2012

Question 33

What two categories did the Kyoto protocol split the countries into

Answer 33

Developed countries and developing countries

Question 34

What did the developed countries have to do (Kyoto protocol)

Answer 34

Cut emissions overall by 5%

Question 35

What did the developing countries have to do (Kyoto protocol)

Answer 35

Monitor and report their emissions

Question 36

Explain: agreement set up as a market in carbon 'credits' | Kyoto protocol

Answer 36

All countries/businesses given a limit on the emissions they produce If produced less=they could sell the extra carbon credits If produced more=they needed to buy more credits

Question 37

Which four countries did not sign up originally in 1997 to the Kyoto protocol

Answer 37

USA, Australia, China, India

Question 38

Why did the USA and Australia not sign up to the Kyoto protocol

Answer 38

They thought it would affect their economies and that developing countries should have targets as well

Question 39

Why did China and India not sign up to the Kyoto protocol

Answer 39

They thought it would slow their growth rate

Question 40

Criticism of the Kyoto protocol

Answer 40

Some felt targets were not high enough, others thought there were no point if the highest polluters were not includes (USA did not fully join)

Question 41

The Kyoto protocol was due to expire in 2012, when did many agree to extend it to

Answer 41

2020

Question 42

What can individuals do at a local level to aid combatting climate change

Answer 42

Reduce their carbon footprint

Question 43

Why will changes to emissions be incremental rather than gradual (changing by step rather than constant)

Answer 43

Large scale initiatives are changes to attributes which are sudden changes

Question 44

What are the two categories of strategies for coping with climate change and global warming

Answer 44

Mitigation strategy | Adaptation strategy