It's Not Easy Being Green
This U.S. congresswoman introduced the Green New Deal.
Who is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)?
This is the term for taking action to prepare for and adjust to both the current and projected impacts of climate change.
What is the adaptation?
COP is the acronym for this event.
What is Conference of the Parties?
A Biden-era law gave people a 30% tax credit for installing these on their homes.
What are solar panels?
This country is the largest contributor to climate change.
What is China?
This industry spent nearly $2 billion between 2000 and 2016 to fight climate change action in the U.S. Congress.
What is the fossil fuel industry?
According to the Paris Agreement, the parties are to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to this many degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
What is 1.5 degrees?
This term used to describe climate change means "caused by humans."
What is "anthropogenic?"
One Biden-era legislation funded the electrification of the 257,000 vehicles of this government agency.
What is the Post Office?
From 1901 to 2023, temperatures of this have increased at an average rate of 0.14 degrees Fahrenheit per decade.
What is sea surface?
CH4 is this greenhouse gas.
What is methane?
If Emily had been in the city at the time, she would have seen the Paris Agreement introduced by this international organization with the acronym UNFCCC.
What is the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change?
COP 30 was held in this country in 2025.
What is Brazil?
This was the primary climate change related legislation of the Biden Administration.
What is the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)?
This layer of soil in the Arctic Circle, which holds an enormous amount of carbon and has been frozen for tens of thousands of years, is now melting.
What is permafrost?
This sector accounts for 29% of global greenhouse gas emissions, primarily through the burning of fossil fuels.
What is transportation?
The Paris Agreement was created in this year.
What is 2015?
COP31 will be held in this country in 2026.
What is Turkey?
The IRA is described as putting the United States on a path to emissions reduction of 40% by this year.
What is 2030?
This term refers to actions limiting the magnitude and rate of future climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions and/or advancing nature-based solutions.
What is mitigation?
The Green New Deal includes a goal to achieve this level of greenhouse gas emission.
What is net zero?
Countries that sign onto the Paris Agreement agree to provide financial support in the form of NDCs, short for this.
What are Nationally Determined Contributions?
This agreement, introduced at COP3, included legally binding emissions targets for developed countries for six major greenhouse gases.
What is the Kyoto Protocol?
One of the tax credits in Biden-era legislation was for technologies that seize CO2 emissions from industrial sources and store them underground, a process called CCS, short for this.
What is carbon capture and sequestration?
This process occurs when the ocean absorbs additional carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and it makes it harder for organisms to build their shells.
What is as ocean acidification?