Exam 18: Climate Change, Environment, and Development

What is generally recognized as the most important development challenge in the twenty-first century?

Discuss the role of the private sector in dealing with climate change.

What was the significance of the Earth Summit in Rio?

What may be the impact of the US leaving the Paris Agreement on climate change?

What is the difference between weak and strong sustainability? What is at stake between the two positions?

Through bioaccumulation, we as a species have built up resistance to pesticides.

What constitutes both the natural and human-made contributions to climate change?

What were the findings of the Brundtland Commission's report Our Common Future?

What is the appeal of low carbon development?

In 1987, the Brundtland Commission popularized what term?

What are some examples of severe environmental degradation in the world?

A key factor in climate change is both natural and human-generated carbon dioxide.

The 1964 UN Conference on Human Well-Being held in San Francisco was the first UN environmental conference

What are the two principal avenues to address climate change in the UNFCCC?

The climate justice perspective argues that we need to focus on current polluters as a practical way forward.

What are the four main arguments in support of climate justice?

Modernization theory elevates Western over Indigenous values.

Based on the degradation of global resources from oceans and the atmosphere, modernization may be argued as posing a great danger for humanity as a whole.

Environmental degradation has a great potential to do what?

Advocates of modernization theory link development improvements to industrialization, urbanization, advances in technology, and increases in global trade.