Environment

Question 1

Kyoto Protocol

Answer 1

1997
1st significant binding agreement which requires industrialized countries to commit to reducing their GHG emissions by an average 5%

Question 2

China overturned the US as the biggest GHG emiter

Answer 2

2005

Question 3

In the US, number of vehicles

Answer 3

220 millions

Question 4

US global consumption of energy

Answer 4

22.5%

Question 5

US renewable energy

Answer 5

7% of the US consumption

Question 6

If everybody lives like an American, we would need ? earths

Answer 6

4 earths

Question 7

Shale oil and Canada :

• global reserves
• production
• consequences ?

Answer 7

• 70% of the global reserves
• 60% of the global production
• consequences :
  > positive = creation of 600 000 jobs + energetic independence
  > negative = water contamination, pollution… CONTROVERSIAL

Question 8

Regulations in the US ?

Answer 8

• Environmental Protection Agency
  > the GHB emissions are a threat to the public health and the welfare of current and future generations
• The Clean Air Act
• The American Clean Energy and Security Act (2009)

Question 9

The New Energetic Policy of Obama

Answer 9

• reduce waste
• increase the renewable sources of energy in the energy mix from 10% in 2012 to 25% in 2015 > allowance of 150 billion to support green energies
• encourage innovation (ex : program Future Generation to produce energy with coal without co2 emissions)

Question 10

Americans in favor of the fight against global warming

Answer 10

2/3
// increasing number of natural disasters

Question 11

Americans who will vote for a candidate who will make the global warming one ot his of her priorities

Answer 11

67%

Question 12

Limits

Answer 12

• Florida : forbidden using the words “global warming” in the environment ministry (whereas it is one of the most vulnerable states about the raise of sea level)
• in January 2015, a bill to affirm the human responsabilities about global warming was rejected by the Congress

Question 13

The president chooses the nation’s most vulnerable state to talk about impacts of climate change and rising sea levels during his Earth Day speech

Answer 13

The Everglades lacked the dramatic imagery of shrinking glaciers in Alaska or the drought-stricken peaks of California. But Florida’s great swamp provided an urgency that other settings couldn’t : it already is in trouble from rising seas.

3rd most populous state = one of the most vulnerable places on Earth to climate change (combination of low, flat landscape and population density)