Mean Green Fightin' Machine
This activist, who recently passed away, revolutionized primate science, though had no formal background in research
Who is Jane Goodall
This protocol addresses the reduction of emissions that damage the ozone layer
What is the Montreal Protocol?
This is the most biodiverse country in the world, which is currently home to nearly 13% of Earth's known species
What is Brazil
This country issued the highest amount of green bonds worldwide in 2023
This organization lost a lawsuit against Energy Transfer, developer of Dakota Access Pipeline, and was found liable for 660 million in damages
Who is Greenpeace
You may see this young woman on a boat or a train, but never on a plane.
Who is Greta Thunberg
Which city hosted the first ever COP (Conference of the Parties) in 1995, creating a forum for international discussion to combat climate change?
Berlin, Germany
This is the most biodiverse county in the contiguous United States, including over 650 species of native bees and 1,380 species of butterflies and moths
What is San Diego County
This emerging market (country) is the largest sovereign issuer of labeled sustainable bonds, with nearly $50 billion issued by 2024
What is Chile
The year in which a global whaling moratorium was implemented in 1982
What is the International Whaling Commission?
Her book Silent Spring started the movement that lead to the founding of the EPA
Who is Rachel Carson
The MARPOL Convention, signed in London at the International Maritime Organization, aims to prevent this type of pollution
What is pollution from ships?
This is the hypothesis that describes increased species diversity in an ecosystem that leads to greater stability
What is the diversity-stability hypothesis?
This is the dollar amount of the New Collective Quantified Goal on climate finance, set at COP29 in 2024
What is at least $300 Bil per year by 2035
What whale species has gone from near extintion to a 90% population recovery since the whaling ban began in 1982?
What are humpback whales
She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004, but not before being elected to the Kenyan Parliament with 98% of the vote
Who is Wangari Maathai
This 2015 agreement aims to limit global warming to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels
What is the Paris Agreement?
This is the name of the principle that states that on average, only 10% of energy available at one trophic level is passed on to the next.
What is the energy transfer efficiency (also known as the 10% rule)
This is the amount provided by multilateral banks in 2024 for climate finance
What is the economic mechanism by which negative environmental externalities are accounted for financially through, for example, a carbon tax?
what is a pigouvian tax
This Brazilian activist was murdered by cattle ranchers at the age of 44: "At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rainforest. Now I realize I am fighting for humanity."
Who is Chico Mendes
This 1973 convention, hosted in Washington DC, regulates international trade in endangered species.
What is CITES?
When a beneficiary of a natural service pays a provider to maintain or improve that service, it is called this
This is the amount that OPEC committed in 2023 for climate finance
$417 million
This technique quantifies a product's environmental impact from the time its components are sourced to the time the product is at end of life.
What is life-cycle analysis