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This nonprofit organization began protecting land in 1954 and now operates globally to conserve nature.
What is the Nature Conservancy?
This international treaty on climate change, adopted in 2015 aimed to hold the global average temperature increase to below 2°C above pre-industrial levels, while pursuing efforts to limit the increase to 1.5°C.
What is the Paris Agreement?
This term describes environmental changes or emissions generated directly by human activity.
What is "anthropogenic"?
Funds from this 2022 legislation marked the largest direct climate investment in U.S. history.
What is the Inflation Reduction Act?
This American marine biologist, writer, and conservationist's 1962 book Silent Spring is credited with advancing marine conservation and the global environmental movement.
Who is Rachel Carson?
This nonprofit organization's first members, including John Muir, were focused on the conservation of a mountain range in California.
What is the Sierra Club?
This international climate meeting is held by the United Nations every year is a forum for world leaders, scientists, and civil groups to negotiate policies and cut greenhouse gas emissions.
What is COP?
This term refers to the goal of balancing the amount of greenhouse gas emissions produced with an equivalent amount removed from the atmosphere.
What is "net zero"?
The IRA provided tax credits for purchasing these types of vehicles.
What are electric vehicles?
This American journalist wrote an essay and later a book about the impact of climate change titled The Uninhabitable Earth.
Who is David Wallace-Wells?
This is the international body that assesses the science related to climate change.
What is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change?
This 1997 international treaty signed in Japan committed industrialized countries and economies in transition to legally binding greenhouse gas reduction targets.
What is the Kyoto Protocol?
This term means making false or misleading claims about the environmental benefits of a product or practice.
What is "greenwashing"?
The IRA imposed an emissions fee on the oil and gas sector for this type of greenhouse gas.
What is methane?
This writer of the book The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History is a staff writer for The New Yorker, who won a Pulitzer Prize for documenting how human-driven climate change and habitat destruction are triggering a mass extinction event.
Who is Elizabeth Kolbert?
The name of this organization, which is building a global grassroots movement to advocate for a transition to 100% renewable energy, refers to the maximum level of carbon in the atmosphere that is safe for people and the planet.
What is 350.org?
This country hosted COP 2026.
What is Turkey?
This term refers to the adjustment of policies, practices, or infrastructure to lessen the negative impacts of climate change.
What is "climate adaptation"?
This 1963 legislation has traditionally served as the primary statutory basis for regulating air pollutants and greenhouse gases federally.
What is the "Clean Air Act"?
This writer published The End of Nature in 1989, which waws widely considered the first general-audience book on climate change. His latest book, Here Comes the Sun, about solar power, was published in 2025.
Who is Bill McKibben?
A program at this university in the Northeast conducts studies on public opinion and behavior; informs policies, media, companies, and NGOs; and educates the public about climate change.
What is Yale?
The UNFCCC was signed at the Earth Summit in this city in 1992, setting the objective of stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations to prevent dangerous human interference with the climate system.
What is Rio?
This term refers to the ongoing decrease in the pH of Earth's oceans, caused by the uptake of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
What is "ocean acidification"?
This finding, rescinded by the Trump Administration, was an EPA determination that pollutants from developing and burning fossil fuels, such as methane and carbon dioxide, can be regulated under the Clean Air Act.
What is the 2009 Environmental Protection Agency endangerment finding?
This Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker wrote This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, which argues that the climate crisis requires a complete overhaul of global economic systems.