Sea Levels
The process by which water heats up, becoming less dense and taking up more space.
What is thermal expansion?
This country is the home of environmental activist Greta Thunberg.
What is Sweden?
This program provides a comprehensive review of all threats to Department of the Navy installations and ranges.
What is the DOD Mission Assurance Program?
Adopted in this year, the Paris Agreement is a landmark international accord that was adopted by nearly every nation to address climate change and its negative impacts.
What is 2015?
This system creates a market, allowing producers to buy and sell carbon emissions.
What is cap and trade?
The melting of land-based ice is a major contributor to the rise of this rise.
What is the global sea level?
This 2014 documentary addressing the impacts of animal agriculture on the planet.
What is “Cowspiracy”?
Climate change and extreme weather can disrupt these kinds of chains.
What are supply chains?
These three major emitting countries that have yet to formally join the agreement.
Who are Iran, Iraq, and Turkey?
This Biden Administration plan would provide tax breaks for clean energy and funding for more efficient government vehicles.
What is Build Back Better?
Variations in coastal sea levels can cause this type of natural disaster.
What is flooding?
Actress Jessica Alba founded this company, which specializes in eco-friendly products.
What is The Honest Company?
This provides a screening-level assessment of an installation’s future climate exposure related to eight hazards: coastal flooding, riverine flooding, heat, drought, energy demand, land degradation, wildfire, and historical extreme weather events.
What is the DOD Climate Assessment Tool (DCAT)?
This goal of the Paris Agreement would limit global warming to no more than this many degrees Celsius, compared to pre-industrial levels.
What is 2?
This fund was set up as part of the Paris Agreement, to pay for environmental projects in developing countries.
What is the Green Climate Fund?
This is how much experts expect U.S. shorelines to lose on average by 2050, thanks to rising sea levels.
What is 10 – 12 inches?
"The Solutions Project," founded by this Marvel-movie actor, aims to transition Americans to renewable energy by 2050.
Who is Mark Ruffalo?
This is the first of five lines of effort included in the Climate Adaptation Strategic Framework.
What is Climate-informed Decision-making?
Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) embody the efforts by each country to adapt to the impact of climate change and reduce this.
What are national emissions?
This is the cheapest fossil fuel in the US, but still is more expensive than solar or wind energy.
What is coal?
These underground water sources may be contaminated as sea levels rise.
What are aquifers?
Julia Louis-Dreyfus is one volunteer with the “Waterkeeper Alliance,” which acts to protect this around the world.
What are clean water sources?
This term describes integrating climate change factors into all threat assessments and updates that serve as input when developing a shared understanding of the operational environment via deliberate review and revision of current contingency and operational plans.
What is Climate Intelligence?
This will take place in 2023 and every 5 years thereafter, to assess collective progress toward achieving the purpose of the Agreement in a comprehensive and facilitative manner.
What is the “Global Stocktake?”
By the year 2100, experts say, climate change will cost the U.S. this much of its yearly GDP.
What is 4%?