About Girl Up
Why Girl Up? (Statistics)
Girls as Climate Action
Climate Events/ Organization
Climate Advocates
100

Which of the following organizations is Girl Up partnered with?

1. Toyota

2. Disney

3. Women's Awareness Foundation

4. Lululemon

2. Disney

100

35% of girls in Uganda drop out of school because of what?

Early Marriage 

100

A combination of educating girls and family planning could greatly reduce the amount of which greenhouse gas in the atmosphere?

CO2

100

This is a government agency created by Congress in 1958. Their original mission was to explore space and aeronautics, but have since become a leading research organization supporting climate action.

NASA

100

This person sometimes plays an angry green guy in the movies, but in real life he’s incredibly green: he’s an outspoken environmental activist who founded both The Solutions Project and Water Defense.

Mark Ruffalo

200

Who of the following is NOT a part of the Girl Up team?

1. Priyanka Chopra

2. Cara Delvingne

3. Emma Watson

4. Victoria Justice

3. Emma Watson

200

In which Girl Up focus country is there the highest HIV prevalence rate in the world, and girls are four times more likely to be HIV positive than boys?

Malawi

200

In 2017, a broad coalition of researchers, scientists, business leaders and policymakers came together for Project Drawdown. This was a multidisciplinary effort to identify the most substantive solutions to cause an annual decline in the concentration of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere. On a list of the top 80 solutions, at what rank was Educating Girls?

#6

200

Human-induced climate change drove many 2018 wildfires in which US state?

California

200

This person is a Swedish schoolgirl climate activist with Aspergers who has been described as a role model for worldwide student activism. She is famous for having initiated the school strike for climate movement that formed in November 2018.

Greta Thunberg

300

Which of the following is NOT a Girl Up focus country?

1. Uganda

2. Kenya

3. Liberia

4. India

2. Kenya

300

70% of women in India are, or have been, victims of _____________?

Domestic Violence

300

In places where girls’ education is not valued, girls are more likely to be pulled out of school to help deal with the impacts of climate change-related events, like being forced to leave school to help fetch water during a drought. In what country has climate change blocked the most girls from education?

Pakistan 

300

Over the years, this organization has fought for the conservation of green sea turtles, red wolves, Florida manatees and the prairie chicken and constantly fights for the preservation of wildlife habitats.

Defenders of Wildlife

300

This person partnered with National Geographic to produce Before The Flood, an incisive documentary that addresses the calculated disinformation campaign orchestrated by powerful special interests working to confuse the public about the urgency of the growing climate crisis. In addition to his work as a public advocate, he founded a Foundation in 1998, with the goal of supporting projects around the world that build climate resiliency, protect vulnerable wildlife, and restore balance to threatened ecosystems and communities.

Leonardo DiCaprio 

400

Girl Up aims to help eliminate one of the biggest obstacles keeping girls out of school: distance. A certain Girl Up program provides girls with bikes, so they can obtain the education they need to create a better future. What is the name of that program?

SchoolCycle

400

A child born to a mother who can read and write is what percent more likely to survive past the age of 5?

50%

400

Young girls in Girl Up's focus countries are at greater risk of early marriage in times of climate-related crises, because their dowries can help ease the burden of scarce household resources.

In Malawi, about what percent of child marriages are estimated to be due to climate change?

between 30% and 40%

400

The 2019 UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Youth Forum gathered more than 1,000 equality, climate, and political leaders from around the world, to contribute to the discussion on what set of goals?

hint: Climate Action is goal #13, and Gender Equality is goal #5 on this list.

Sustainable Development Goals

400

As a Fijian activist for Pacific Island Represent, this 21 year old attended the most important climate change conference, COP24 in Poland, and shared her story about how Cyclone Winston destroyed her mother’s village

Hint: this handsome actor finally got the Oscar he deserved in 2016

Litia Baleilevuka

500

What are the 5 Girl Up critical areas for support?

hint: 1 is Education

1. Education

2. Health

3. Safety

4. Leadership

5. Documentation

500

1 in 7 girls in developing countries is married before the age of...

15

500

A study suggests that for every additional year of schooling a girl receives on average, her country’s resilience to climate disasters on the ND-GAIN Index (which calculates a country's vulnerability to climate change in relation to its resilience) can be expected to improve by how many points?

3

500

This Typhoon in the Philippines and China was induced by climate change and cost about $2 billion in repairs.

Typhoon Mangkhut

500

This man is, arguably, one of the most influential climate scientists. In 1988, he gained fame as a result of testimony he gave before the US Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee that is widely considered a turning point in the history of climate change as a public policy issue. He is an influential researcher on the science of climate change and how to prevent it.

James E. Hansen

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