It's Not Easy Being Green
This U.S. congresswoman introduced the Green New Deal.
Who is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)?
This country re-joined the Paris Agreement in 2021.
What is the U.S.?
COP is the acronym for this event.
What is Conference of the Parties?
The IRA gives people a 30% tax credit for installing these on their homes.
What are solar panels?
Climate change is defined as the long-term change in this.
The Green New Deal includes a goal to achieve this level of greenhouse gas emission.
What is net-zero?
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?"
The Inflation Reduction Act provides $3 billion to this agency to electrify its fleet of more than 217,000 vehicles.
What is the U.S. Postal Service?
These types of bears are being impacted by melting ice sheets and glaciers in polar regions.
What are polar bears?
These are two of the "frontline and vulnerable" communities that the GND seeks to protect.
Who are communities of color, indigenous peoples, women, youth, deindustrialized communities, migrant communities, depopulated rural communities, the poor, low-income workers, the elderly, the unhoused, and people with disabilities?
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 29 was held in this country in 2024.
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The IRA provides $50 million to advance protections for these leafy areas.
What are mature and old-growth forests?
Nearly all the countries attending COP28 agreed to create a "loss and damage" fund that would help poor nations deal with this.
What is "loss and damage"?
This adjective describes resolutions that, like the GND, when approved do not automatically become law.
What is "nonbinding?"
If Emily were employed in this sector, she would be one of more than 3 million Americans, about 14 times the number of coal, gas, oil, and other fossil fuel industry workers.
What is the clean energy sector?
COP30 will be held in this country in 2025.
What is Brazil?
The IRA is described as putting the United States on a path to emissions reduction of 40% by this year.
What is 2030?
Energy sources like solar energy, which are renewable, produce this type of energy.
What is "renewable energy"?
This is the senator who introduced the Green New Deal in the Senate (the dude, not AOC).
Who is Senator Ed Markey (D-MA)?
Because she was too young, Emily was not in Paris this year, the year the Paris Agreement was created.
What is 2015?
This agreement, introduced in Japan at COP3, included legally binding emissions targets for developed countries for six major greenhouse gases.
What is the Kyoto Protocol?
As part of a compromise, the IRA includes tax credits for CCS, short for this.
What is carbon capture and sequestration?
In the U.S., this agency is tasked with protecting the environment.
What is the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?