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This greenhouse gas is over 25 times more potent than CO2 in warming the atmosphere.
This 2015 climate accord, adopted under the UNFCCC in France, set global goals to limit warming to well below 2°C.
What is the Paris Agreement?
The Great Barrier Reef is located off the coast of this country.
What is Australia?
This federal US statute requires Environmental Impact Statements.
What is NEPA?
This British primatologist is famous for her groundbreaking studies of chimpanzees in Gombe, Tanzania.
Who is Jane Goodall?
This country leads the world in solar energy (total capacity installed as well as panel manufacturing).
What is China?
This set of 17 objectives, adopted in 2015, aims to tackle climate change and preserve the environment.
What are the Sustainable Development Goals?
These microscopic organisms in the ocean produce at least half of Earth’s oxygen.
What are phytoplankton?
This NY state statute requires Environmental Impact Statements.
What is SEQRA?
This American marine biologist’s 1962 book Silent Spring helped spark the modern environmental movement.
Who is Rachel Carson?
This fossil fuel has the highest COâ‚‚ emissions per unit of energy.
What is coal?
UNFCCC stands for this.
Coral reefs worldwide are threatened by this ocean phenomenon linked to warming waters.
An environmental policy or common practice that requires the party at fault to bear the costs of pollution control.
What is the Polluter Pays Principle?
This Swedish teenager became world-famous for school strikes demanding climate action.
Who is Greta Thungberg?
Iceland produces nearly 100% of its electricity from geothermal and this renewable source.
This annual UN conference brings together nations to negotiate climate action.
What is COP (Conference of the Parties)?
Listed as critically endangered, this amphibian is known for its ability to regenerate limbs.
What is the axolotl?
In Massachusetts v. EPA, SCOTUS ruled that this pollutant is covered under this act.
What is carbon dioxide; the Clean Air Act?
This former U.S. Vice President won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his climate change advocacy.
Who is Al Gore?
The world's largest offshore wind farm is located off the coast of this country.
What is the United Kingdom (England)?
This initiative coordinates responses to environmental issues within the United Nations system.
What is the UN Environmental Programme?
With fewer than 10 remaining, this is the most endangered marine mammal on Earth.
What is the vaquita?
In 2018, Colombia's supreme court recognized this ecosystem as a legal subject of rights, granting it the same legal standing as a human being.
What is the Amazon Rainforest?
This Kenyan activist founded the Green Belt Movement, an environmental non-governmental organization focused on planting trees, environmental conservation, and women's rights.