Environmental
What does EIS stand for?
Environmental Impact Statement
What is a policy of protecting a country's domestic industries by using tariffs and other barriers to limit imports called?
Protectionism
Which country owns the most US debt?
Japan
Who was the cold war between?
US and Soviet Union
In which Japanese city, whose name is an anagram of Japan’s capital, was an international treaty signed in 1997 relating to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions?
Kyoto
Which US state exported the highest value of goods in 2017?
CA, WA, TX, MIC, NY
Texas
Which European country colonized Cuba?
Spain
How many nuclear-weapon states are there under the NPT (Non-proliferation Treaty)?
five
Known throughout the world as an environmental leader, Costa Rica generates more than 99% of its electricity using renewable sources. The vast majority of this renewable energy comes from what source?
Hydroelectric
How many countries does the US have free trade agreements with?
twenty
North American Free Trade Agreement
Dominican Republic-Central American Free Trade Agreement
What group, responsible for global medical well-being, was formed by the United Nations after World War II, combining the efforts of groups like the International Sanitary Conferences?
WHO- World Health Organization
Which treaty forbids the five member states from transferring nuclear weapons to any other state?
NPT (non-proliferation treaty)
Introduced by Montana Senator James E. Murray, the Resources and Conservation Act of 1959 paved the way for what U.S. government agencies to form in 1970 is called what?
The environmental protection agency
In 2015 the US congress passed legislation allowing the US to export which commodity for the first time in decades?
Steel, Crude oil, Grain, Diamonds
Crude Oil
"Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us" is a quote from what U.S. president, who ironically was killed by a former U.S. Marine?
JFK
How many countries possess nuclear weapons?
9
The acronym CAT refers to what kind of market-based emissions reduction program, where polluters must buy credits if they want to increase their emissions, what does CAT stand for?
Cap and Trade
Which US president signed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with Canada and Mexico?
George HW Bush on December 17, 1992
Who are the five permanent UN members?
China, Russia, France, UK, and US
When did the Treaty on the Non- Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons enter into force?
1970