Environmental Concerns Flashcards
One of pillars of China’s 2015 5-year plan
Electric Vehicles
China in solar power rankings
Number 1 generator of solar electricity by KwH
What is notable about energy use and China’s cement usage?
Uses 25% more energy for cement manufacture than world average
What is there a lack of energy infrastructure in India?
Democratic government - top-down development increasingly difficult
Smaller % of spending goes into infrastructure
Mass informal development
When did India implement diesel subsidies?
2002
Negative repercussion that resulted after India provided diesel subsidies
1000% increase in diesel cars in Delhi
New Delhi’s particulate matter
X2 that of Beijing
What number of the world’s most air polluted cities are in China?
16/20
USA uses how much more CO2 per person than China
X5
Cost of air pollution in China as % of GDP
6.5%
what is a possible form of agricultural destruction in China resulting from high reliance on coal power?
acid rain
India’s change in temperature predicted by 2050
3.1-3.5%
China’s change in temperature predicted by 2050
1.6-2%
X3 repercussions of India’s temperature increase in relation to agriculture ;
- desertification
- drying up of water supplies
- crop failures
- food shortages
How many days does the Yellow River run for annually
165 days on average
What % of discharges are were untreated in China pre-2010?
90%
What of rivers no longer support fish?
80%
What river in China is no longer fit for spraying farmland? Yet supplies 1/12 of the world’s population with drinking water
Yangtze
What % of India’s communicable diseases are caused by unsafe water?
20%
What % of the population of India has access to a latrine
15%
Where does China source most of its copper?
Zambia
X2 reasons for the nutritional transition
- increasing wealth
- westernisation of diet
What happened to iron ore prices in 2008? Who did this?
increased 70%
Rio Tinto, Vale and BHP Billiton
X4 reasons for decline in arable land
- increased pesticide use
- continuous farming
- desertification
- over-abstraction / lack of water
X2 areas where China has secured agricultural production
5% of Ukraine
Tanzania
How much more does China invest in urban planning and infrastructure than India?
X7
Renewable energy output;
- India
- China
- India : 15%
- China : 19%
