Exam 16: Energy and the Environment: Navigating Climate Change and Global Disaster

Which of the following is not one of the "mechanisms" recommended by the Kyoto Protocol to help countries reduce their levels of greenhouse gas emissions?

Which of the following is not an accurate statement about deniers of climate change?

Which of the following is not one of the reasons the Trump administration gave for withdrawing the United States from the Paris Agreement on Climate Change?

Use some of the discussion questions at the end of the chapter, especially numbers 4, 5, and 6.

Which of the following statements about energy in China is incorrect?

Students could also pick a single energy source such as coal or solar and focus on changes in market and political conditions surrounding its impact on the environment over time.

Which of the following is not a feature of China and Africa's new energy relationship?

Between 2014 and 2016, which of the following countries or regions made the most new investments in clean energy?

Iraq accused this country of cheating on its OPEC production quotas and siphoning off oil from the neutral zone between it and this country, which led to the Persian Gulf War in 1990.

Who said that dealing with the shortage of oil was "the moral equivalent of war"?

Which statement about the 1992 "Earth Summit" in Rio is incorrect?

Other possible questions might pertain to: OPEC; resource curses; shifting economic supply and demand conditions for energy; the impact of these issues on different societal groups; and how nations, the EU, or the UN handle these issues.

OPEC is an example of a cartel. A cartel is

Which of the following statements about the Obama administration's energy policies is not true?

Which of the following is an international body established in 1988 under the auspices of the UNEP and the World Meteorological Organization and made up chiefly of climate scientists from all over the world who assess the scientific, technical, and socio-economic information about climate change and its future risks?

The headquarters of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is in which city?

Between 2004 and 2007, global investments in renewable energy more than quadrupled, with solar, wind, and biofuels receiving 82 percent of this money in countries such as China, India, Pakistan, and the Philippines. In which did form of energy did the United States make the preponderance of its new investments during this period?