UN

Question 1

When did the UN come about?

Answer 1

after WW2

Question 1

What is global governance?

Answer 1

designating laws, rules and regulations intended to manage global systems (such as laws managing international trade)

Question 2

What is the aim of the UN?

Answer 2

reduce instability and global conflict whilst building secure relationships

Question 3

How does the UN address inequality?

Answer 3

• aid flows
• promote FDI
• invest in infrastructure (working with World Bank)
• trade (WTO)
• multilateral institutions approach

Question 4

What is extreme poverty?

Answer 4

living on less than $1.25 per day

Question 5

What years did the MDGs run from and to?

Answer 5

2000-2015

Question 6

What % of people were living in extreme poverty in 1990? what about 2010?

Answer 6

1990: 36%
2010: 18%

Question 7

What is the time range for the SDGs?

Answer 7

2016-2030

Question 8

Give 7 examples of SDGs

Answer 8

• no poverty
• no hunger
• good health and well-being
• gender equality
• clean water and sanitation
• affordable and clean energy
• life below water and life on land
• peace, justice and strong institutions
• climate action
• reduced inequalities
• sustainable cities and communities

Question 9

How do the SDGs link to Gini/Lorenz?

Answer 9

aims to reduce inequality which would lead to a gini closer to 0 and a plot on the lorenz graph closer to the line of equality

Question 10

How would SDGs impact Uganda?

Answer 10

• less poverty and hunger -> less migration
• BUT, climate policies could impact fishing and industry

Question 11

What is environmental sustainability?

Answer 11

state where the demands placed on the environment can be met without reducing quality of the environment for future generations

Question 12

What are global commons?

Answer 12

resource domains that are outside the political reach of any nation state therefore everyone and no one are responsible for them

Question 13

What does UNDP stand for?

Answer 13

United Nations Development Programme

Question 14

What does UNEP stand for? what are they?

Answer 14

United Nations Environment Programme, are the global authority on the environment

Question 15

What are ‘Earth Summits’?

Answer 15

World Summits on Sustainable Development
set out policies and frameworks for sustainable development

Question 16

When and where was the blueprint meeting of the ‘Earth Summits’?

Answer 16

1992, Rio de Janeiro

Question 17

What is COP?

Answer 17

• conference of parties
• Paris agreement (COP21)
  -UN nations come together to discuss climate

Question 18

Who established the Paris Agreement and what is it?

Answer 18

UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
all UN nations signed agreement to keep temperature rises below 1.5C (2C maximum)

Question 19

What is a major failure of the UN?

Answer 19

• Rwanda Genocide, killed over 800,000 in 1994
• UN had troops present, yet were not given a mandate to stop the killing
• the UN and belgian troops pulled out after 10 Belgian soldiers were killed

Question 20

What 2 ethnic groups were involved with the Rwanda genocide?

Answer 20

Hutus, who murdered many of the Tutsi ethnic minority