Lesson 9

Question 1

What aims does the SDG Climate action have?

Answer 1

• Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries.
• Integrate climate change measures into national policies and planning.
• Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity in relation to climate change mitigation, adaptation and early warning.
• Establish a developed-country fund of $100 billion annually to address the needs of developing countries and promote ways to raising capacity for effective climate change planning and management in least developed countries (LDCs), focusing on women, youth and local and marginalised communities.

Question 2

When does weather occur?

Answer 2

over a period of hours or days.

Question 3

Definition of climate?

Answer 3

general weather over a long period.

Question 4

What can climate averages include?

Answer 4

rainfall/precipitation, temperature etc gathered over many years or decades

Question 5

Definition of climate change?

Answer 5

long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns. These shifts may be natural, such as through variations in the solar cycle. But since the 1800s,human activities have been the main driver of climate change, primarily due to burning fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas.

Question 6

What effects might we see in the UK Climate?

Answer 6

• Changes in availability of water.
• Less predictable rainfall.
• More intense storms.
• More drought and flooding events