Water, carbon life on earth and human intervention

Question 1

climate change mitigation

Answer 1

Refers to the efforts to reduce or prevent the emission of greenhouse gasses

Question 2

regional committments

Answer 2

28 members of the EU operate the EU emissions trading system which is the biggest international system for trading greenhouse gas allocations
countries are fined if they go over their cap

Question 3

bilateral committments

Answer 3

2014 - USA and china signed a secretly negotiated agreement to limit their emissions
china agreed to cap its emissions by 2030 and USA agreed to reduce emissions by 27% by 2025.

Question 4

what do the globally combined land and ocean surface temperature show?

Answer 4

a warming of 0.85 degrees between 1880 to 2012

Question 5

have the greenland and antarctic ice sheets been losing mass?

Answer 5

yes

Question 6

how much did sea level rise

Answer 6

over the period of 1901 to 2010 global mean sea level rose by 0.19m