No Poverty
What percentage of the world's population lives on less than $2.50 a day?
Over 1/2 the world's population
Over 40 years, equitable access to ________ can raise a country's gross domestic product per capita by up to 23 percent.
quality education
What is the prominent gas in green house gas emissions?
Carbon Dioxide or CO2. CO2 contributes to 65% of the green house gasses in the Earth's atmosphere. It is created by fossil fuel and industrial processes.
805 million people worldwide do not have enough of this to maintain good health
Food
How many children world wide live in poverty?
1 billion
In one of _____ countries, less than three quarters of teachers are trained to national standards, resulting in 130 million children enrolled in school who are not even learning the basics.
three
In what forest does 1% of tree species sequester 50% of the region's carbon out of the air?
The Amazon forest, know as the carbon-storing powerhouse
What is one of the major causes of malnutrition in children under 5 years of age?
Stunted growth
About how many children die each day due to poverty?
about 22,000 (UNICEF, 2015)
According to UNESCO (The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) The poorest countries in the world, where basic education is most likely to be a binding constraint for development, have very large segments of the population who are illiterate. In Niger, for example, the literacy rate of the youth (15-24 years) is under ______ %
50 % (36.5%)
According to NASA Vital Signs of the Planet 2019, the artic will likely become ice-free by _______ (date)
Mid-century
Asia, 515 million (WHO, 2017)
According to the OECD in 2015, which country in the world has the highest homeless population in numbers?
The United States 564,708 , followed by Germany with 335,000 and Canada 150,000.
World-wide how many millions of primary school aged girls will not have the opportunity to learn to read and write?
15 million girls, and 10 million boys
Transportation with 29%, followed by Electricity with 28% , and third Industry with 22%
Food waste comes in two varieties, consumer and production/retailing. Which region of the world has the highest rate of production/retailing food waste anually?
Latin America. The top for consumer food waste are North America and closely followed by Europe.