They did what?!
According to the documentary, "Who Killed the Electric Car?," who killed the electric car?
General Motors
According to a recent study in Norway, this emotion is by far the most powerful emotion for spurring climate action.
Anger
What is the opposite of extractive?
Regenerative
At this asset management firm, the CEO oversees one of the world’s largest fossil fuel investment portfolios, with $87bn behind the industry despite making sweeping climate promises and even writing an op-ed about achieving a “net-zero” world.
BlackRock
As part of the Paris Accords, sovereigns are required to reach net-zero emissions by which year?
2050
This animal was considered largely responsible for the largest carbon-sinks in North America's Central Plains - with a population of nearly 60 million - it was brought to near-extinction in the late 19th century by western settlers.
The American Buffalo (AKA Bison)
This concept, first coined in the 1920s, refers to the direct and indirect costs of producing or using fossil fuels that are not borne by the producers or users but by society as a whole.
Externalities
This annual conference, organized by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, brings together nations to address global climate challenges. It led to landmark agreements such as the Paris Agreement in 2015.
COP or Conference of the Parties
Billionaire Jamie Dimon is top dog at this bank, which has provided $317bn in fossil fuel financing – 33% more than any other bank.
JP Morgan Chase
This layer around the earth protects its surface from harmful radiation such as Gamma and UV rays.
Ozone Layer
This US President started the US Environmental Protection Agency.
Richard Nixon!
This term, which refers to the current geological age, is viewed as starting when human activities had a significant global impact on the Earth's geology and ecosystems.
Anthropocene
Addressing ______ emissions, part of Scope 3 indirect emissions, is one of the easiest ways individuals can divest from fossil fuels. It is also Alex's favorite topic for emissions conversation.
Financed Emissions
In which state did the court find that young people have a constitutional right to a healthful environment and that the state must consider potential climate damage when approving projects.
Montana
This type of fungi helps plant-life store carbon from the atmosphere in its roots.
Mychrorrizal
Andreas Malm, in his work on the history of fossil fuels, discussed the transition from biofuels and hydropower to coal and other fossil fuels. What was, according to Malm, the ruling party's motivation behind the transition?
Control of labor
A concept emerging in the late 1980s, this term describes the point of no return for climate change, after which the system may spiral into uncontrollable warming.
Tipping Point
An economic model that focuses on producing no waste and minimizing negative impacts by designing products to be fully reclaimed or re-utilized.
Circular Economy
Exxon lobbyists caught on tape earlier this year specifically identified this US Senator as “their guy”, said they meet with him several times a week. He also takes more money from the fossil fuel industry than any other Democrat.
Joe Manchin
What does the IPCC stand for?
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
This famous American physicist behind the Hydrogen bomb warned the American Petroleum Institute of carbon emissions and the need to change energy sources in 1959.
Edward Teller
This Prussian polymath, known for his exploration in South America and considered the "father of modern geography," was one of the first to propose that human activities could influence climate change, especially through deforestation.
Alexander von Humboldt
This word first made its published debut in 1972 in Dana (Donella) Meadows' book "Limits to Growth," which was written as a counter-argument to the doomsaying reports from the Club of Rome.
Sustainability!
Merchants of ________, authored in 2010, details how a loose-knit group of high-level scientists, with extensive political connections, ran effective campaigns to mislead the public and deny well-established scientific knowledge over four decades.
Doubt
A Verifiable Carbon Unit is one of the many labels of accreditation for this type of controversial marketplace that allows for organizations to "offset" their carbon emissions.
Carbon Credit