Environmental Concerns

Question 1

One of pillars of China’s 2015 5-year plan

Answer 1

Electric Vehicles

Question 2

China in solar power rankings

Answer 2

Number 1 generator of solar electricity by KwH

Question 3

What is notable about energy use and China’s cement usage?

Answer 3

Uses 25% more energy for cement manufacture than world average

Question 4

What is there a lack of energy infrastructure in India?

Answer 4

Democratic government - top-down development increasingly difficult

Smaller % of spending goes into infrastructure

Mass informal development

Question 5

When did India implement diesel subsidies?

Answer 5

2002

Question 6

Negative repercussion that resulted after India provided diesel subsidies

Answer 6

1000% increase in diesel cars in Delhi

Question 7

New Delhi’s particulate matter

Answer 7

X2 that of Beijing

Question 8

What number of the world’s most air polluted cities are in China?

Answer 8

16/20

Question 9

USA uses how much more CO2 per person than China

Answer 9

X5

Question 10

Cost of air pollution in China as % of GDP

Answer 10

6.5%

Question 11

what is a possible form of agricultural destruction in China resulting from high reliance on coal power?

Answer 11

acid rain

Question 12

India’s change in temperature predicted by 2050

Answer 12

3.1-3.5%

Question 13

China’s change in temperature predicted by 2050

Answer 13

1.6-2%

Question 14

X3 repercussions of India’s temperature increase in relation to agriculture ;

Answer 14

• desertification
• drying up of water supplies
• crop failures
• food shortages

Question 15

How many days does the Yellow River run for annually

Answer 15

165 days on average

Question 16

What % of discharges are were untreated in China pre-2010?

Answer 16

90%

Question 17

What of rivers no longer support fish?

Answer 17

80%

Question 18

What river in China is no longer fit for spraying farmland? Yet supplies 1/12 of the world’s population with drinking water

Answer 18

Yangtze

Question 19

What % of India’s communicable diseases are caused by unsafe water?

Answer 19

20%

Question 20

What % of the population of India has access to a latrine

Answer 20

15%

Question 21

Where does China source most of its copper?

Answer 21

Zambia

Question 22

X2 reasons for the nutritional transition

Answer 22

• increasing wealth

- westernisation of diet

Question 23

What happened to iron ore prices in 2008? Who did this?

Answer 23

increased 70%

Rio Tinto, Vale and BHP Billiton

Question 24

X4 reasons for decline in arable land

Answer 24

• increased pesticide use
• continuous farming
• desertification
• over-abstraction / lack of water

Question 25

X2 areas where China has secured agricultural production

Answer 25

5% of Ukraine

Tanzania

Question 26

How much more does China invest in urban planning and infrastructure than India?

Answer 26

X7

Question 27

Renewable energy output;

• India
• China

Answer 27

• India : 15%

- China : 19%