L9

Question 1

what act happened in 1956?

Answer 1

Clean air act - in response to london’s great smog of 1952

Question 2

When was the Stockholm conference?

Answer 2

1972
led to the creation of UN environment program

club of rome published limits to grwoth

Question 3

What happened in 1983 and what did this body then publish?

Answer 3

UN created the World Commission on Environment and Development

published the Bruntland Report

Question 4

When was the bruntland report?

Answer 4

1987

Question 5

How is sustainable development defined by the bruntland report?

Answer 5

development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to me their own needs

Question 6

When are where was the first earth summit?

Answer 6

1992 - Rio de Janeiro - Brazil

Question 7

What lessons were learnt from the 2000 MDGs?

Answer 7

• not based on an idea that all member states should take action
• reporting as a soft way of verifying implementation
• global focus led to a higher buy in
• responsibility and accountability relationships were unclear

Question 8

What were some of the key events of 2015?

Answer 8

• Sendai framework for disaster risk reduction
• Addis Ababa Action Agenda on Financing and Development
• 2030 SDGs- 17
• Paris agreement on climate change

Question 9

How can you access climate mitigation and SDG interactions?

Answer 9

• Expert elicitation
• network analysis
  -participatory modelling
  -system dynamics models
• systematic review + assessment

look at the synergies - positive - and trade offs-negative connections

quant
- statistical models, econometrics
- IAMS

Question 10

What did the IPCC SR15 find on synergies and trade offs/

Answer 10

• mitigation options show multiple synergies and trade offs across the SDGs
• total number of possible synergies exceeds the tradeoffs but net effect will depend on the pace and mag. of changes, composition of the mitigation portfolio and management of the transition

-1.5oc pathways that include low energy demand, low material consumption, and low GHG intensive food consumption have the most pronounced synergies and the lowest number of trade offs

• sustainable development, eradicating poverty and reducing inequality can support limiting warming to 1.5oc