IPCC overview
Dangerous Incrementalism
Fiddling While Planet Burns
Loss and Damage
Randomm!
100

This organization provides authoritative scientific assessments on climate change.

What is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

100

This mechanism encourages countries to increase their climate commitments every five years.

 (Paris agreement) What is the ratchet-up mechanism

100

This country hosted COP25 in 2019 after Chile’s withdrawal.

What is Spain

100

This term describes climate impacts that cannot be prevented or adapted to

What is loss and damage

100

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Paris agreement 

200

The IPCC’s First Assessment Report contributed to the creation of this global framework

What is the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

200

These country-specific plans form the backbone of the Paris Agreement.

What are Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)

200

COP25 addressed this contentious issue about carrying over credits from the Kyoto Protocol.

What is carbon credit carryover

200

This international climate conference agreed to establish a fund for loss and damage in 2022

What is COP27

200

true or false: Scotlands National Animal is the Unicorn 

True 

300

The IPCC co-won this prestigious award in 2007 alongside Al Gore

What is the Nobel Peace Prize

300

This was the predicted temperature increase range under initial Paris Agreement pledges.

What is 2.6°C to 3.1°C

300

This principle-based framework from COP25 aimed to ensure integrity in carbon markets.

What are the San Jose Principles

300

This coalition of small island nations introduced the concept of loss and damage in the 1990s.

What is the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS)

300

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Climate Justice 

400

Critics argue the IPCC underrepresents contributions from these regions and fields of study.

What are developing countries and social sciences

400

This key demand by developing nations was only partially addressed in the Paris Agreement, and still lacks a stable definition

What is loss and damage

400

COP25 extended this roadmap, promoting gender equality in climate action.

What is the Gender Action Plan

400

Non-economic losses from climate change include these irreplaceable elements.

What are cultural heritage and biodiversity

400

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loss and damage 

500

This criticism highlights the IPCC’s cautious approach, avoiding more urgent recommendations.

What is conservatism or overly cautious consensus

500

The Agreement's legitimacy partly hinged on the participation of this major global emitter.

What is the United States

500

Critics describe COP25's failure to produce ambitious outcomes with this metaphor.

What is fiddling while the planet burns

500

This 2015 framework under the UNFCCC reaffirms approaches to address loss and damage

What is the Cancun Adaptation Framework

500

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(hint, 2 words) 

climate change