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Water, Geothermal, Wind
What is solar energy, one of the renewable energy sources?
An Act promoting the development, utilization and commercialization of renewable energy resources.
What is the Republic Act No. 9513 or the Renewable Energy Act of 2008?
A Swedish teenager and a famous climate activist.
Who is Greta Thunberg?
The first global treaty that was designed to limit greenhouse gas emissions and prevent climate change.
What is the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)?
Rethinking economic models to reduce both the pressure on resources and the generation of waste.
What is a circular economy?
Spain, United Kingdom, Egypt, Dubai
Where is Azerbaijan, the host for COP 29?
Source: https://unfccc.int/process/bodies/supreme-bodies/conference-of-the-parties-cop
The pledge the Philippines signed at COP 26, but did not agree to all its aspects.
What is the coal exit pledge?
Provided the first evidence that CO2 levels are rising.
Who is Dr Charles David Keeling?
The period in human history where coal, railroads, and land clearing speed up greenhouse gas emission
What is the First Industrial Revolution?
Refers to the period during which warming will have increased past 1.5° C, before falling back down.
What is climate overshoot?
Carbon dioxide (CO2), Methane (CH4), Nitrous oxide (N2O)
What is water vapor, one of the four naturally occurring greenhouse gases?
Source: https://css.umich.edu/publications/factsheets/climate-change/greenhouse-gases-factsheet
The country's commitment target in reducing its emissions by 2030.
What is 75%
The co-winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize together with the IPCC.
Who is Al Gore?
Established in 1989 under the United Nations to provide a scientific view of climate change and its political and economic impacts.
What is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)?
Putting equity and human rights at the core of decision-making and action on climate change.
What is climate justice?
Montreal Protocol (1987). UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC, 1992). Kyoto Protocol (2005).
What was the Paris Agreement in 2015?
Source: https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/paris-global-climate-change-agreements
The percentage of the country's emission target that will be financed through public budget.
What is 2.7% of 75%?
A trained chemist, this politician was the first major world leader to take a determined position, describing global warming as a key issue.
Who is Margaret Thatcher?
The satellite launched in 1964 that provided the world’s first accurate measurement of global atmospheric temperatures
What is NASA’s Nimbus III satellite?
The process of planting trees in areas that have not been forested in recent history.
What is Afforestation?
China, the United States of America, India, the European Union
Who is the Russian Federation, one of the top five emitters of greenhouse gases in 2021?
A colorless gas that the Department of Energy hopes to integrate into its energy roadmap apart from hydrogen.
What is ammonia?
Formulated the Carbon Dioxide Theory of Climate Change in 1956.
Who is Gilbert Plass?
Launched in April 2019 to accelerate green infrastructure investments in Southeast Asia.
What is the ASEAN Catalytic Green Finance Facility (ACGF)?
These happen when one change in the climate triggers further changes, in a chain reaction that reinforces itself as time goes on.
What are climate feedback loops?