Least Developed Countries
Intragenerational & Intergenerational Equity
LDCF
Project Specifics
100
The number of least developed countries
What is 44?
100
Fundamental human right to employment, food, shelter, and also unpolluted air, water, and other environmental goods
What are subsistence rights?
100
The organization that runs the LDCF
What is the Global Environment Facility (GEF)?
100
The climate issue Bhutan received LDCF funding for
What are Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFs)?
200
What is Bhutan?
200
This philosopher said the current situation is equivalent to the “enslavement” of future generations
Who is John Nolt?
200
The year the LDCF was created at COP7
What is 2001?
200
The project goal in Bangladesh
What is afforestation?
300
Low income, weak human assets, and high economic and social vulnerability
What are the qualifications to be a Least Developed Country?
300
This theorist said “If physical security is a basic right, then so are the conditions that create it"
Who is Henry Shue?
300
Country driven strategies for addressing their most urgent adaptation needs
What are National Adaptation Programs of Action (NAPAs)?
300
One of the lakes at the focus of Bhutan's LDCF project
What is Thorthormi Lake?
400
What is Sierra Leone?
400
The two reasons climate change will be distributed unevenly
What are physical processes and different adaptive capacities of communities?
400
The country that is the largest contributor to the LDCF (as of June 2012)
What is Germany?
400
The year rice yield losses will worsen in Cambodia
What is 2080?
500
The group that reviews the list of Least Developed Countries every three years
What is the Committee for Development Policy (CDP)?
500
Ocean acidification, natural & humanitarian disasters, food security, human health & diseases, water quality & availability, and climate refugees
What are the six climate-related impacts likely to be most severe (which threaten our ability to meet our subsistence obligations and protect future generations), according to Sovacool?
500
Amount of funding each LDC can get in GEF-8
What is $20 million?
500
These characteristics make the Maldives especially vulnerable to rainfall flooding and ocean-induced flooding (name at least one)
What are small size, low elevation, narrow width, and dispersed nature of coral islands and reefs?