The growing global warming crisis
States in the western part of the United States that experienced wildfires during the first half of this year
What is California, Montana and Oregon?
Vector-borne diseases
Dengue-fever and Malaria
True or false: Countries that emit the largest amounts of carbon dioxide have to stop soon
What is true?
The main goal of the Paris agreement of 2015
What is limiting the increase in average global temperatures to no more than 2.0 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels?
This temperature increase projection suggests that the Arctic Ocean could become ice-free in the summer once every 10 years
What is the 2.0 degrees Celsius increase?
The year that the chief of the International Energy Agency in Paris recently stated that investments in clean energy can still help the world onto a pathway to net-zero emissions.
What is 2050?
The significance of the world dealing with severe heat waves
What is a world where extreme weather events are fuelled by the continuous rise of man-made atmospheric carbon dioxide?
The regions in the world where a 2.0 degrees Celsius increase is projected to lead to more declines in yields of maize, wheat, rice and different cereal crops
What are central and South America, sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia?
The temperature increase projection that can be avoided by reducing global net greenhouse gas emissions by 45 percent from 2010 levels by 2030 and reach net zero by 2050
What is 1.5 degrees Celsius?
The topic of this November's United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties
What is the number and severity of severe weather events is overtaking the efforts to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions?
True or false: With a 2.0 degrees Celsius increase, a global model cited by a United Nations report projects a decrease of more than 3 million metric tonnes in global annual catch for marine fisheries
What is true?
To limit global warming below 2.0 degrees Celsius, emissions must be reduced by this percent by 2030 and reach net-zero by 2070
What is 25%?
The time of the pre-industrial era
What is a time period centred roughly on the mid-19th century?
The percentage of insects, vertebrates and plants that are projected to lose more than half of their climatically determined geographic range by 2100 with a 1.5 degrees Celsius increase
What are 6 percent of insects, 8 percent of plants and 4 percent of vertebrates?
The name of the chief of the International Energy Agency in Paris
Who is Fatih Birol?