Climate | MCQs

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On December 11, 2019, Greta Thunberg was named Time magazine's Person of the Year. 

The 16-year-old climate activist from Sweden is the magazine's youngest choice to be named Person of the Year.

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The Paris Agreement, signed in 2015, is a global agreement that aims to limit global warming to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels

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Murree is a mountain resort town, located in the Galyat region of the Pir Panjal Range, within the Rawalpindi District of Punjab, Pakistan

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• "Antarctica is the coldest, windiest and highest continent in the world.
• It lies at the bottom of the world, surrounding the South Pole."

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The International Conference on Climate Resilient Pakistan, co-hosted by the Government of Pakistan and the United Nations, took place on 9 January 2023.

At Geneva international conference on climate-resilient, Pakistan was held.

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The International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC)

Washington, DC, (2009, 2011, 2015, 2017, 2019);

New York City, (2008, 2009)

Chicago, (2010, 2012)

Germany (2008, 2011)

Australia, (2010)

Las Vegas, (2014, 2021)

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These are the rotation of the earth around its axis and the revolution of the earth around the sun of its orbit.

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Fiji is the President of COP23, and its agenda is to highlight the threat posed to small island states by climate change.

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 Canada's withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol.

This action became effective for Canada on 15 December 2012.

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The Kyoto Protocol was an international treaty that talked about Pollution and aimed to reduce the emission of gases that contribute to global warming

Kyoto Protocol on International Climate Change signed: December 1997

The Kyoto Protocol was signed in Kyoto, Japan

Come into Force on 16 Feb 2005

The Kyoto Protocol was an international treaty that extended the 1992 United Nations Framework

Parties:

the European Union

Cook Islands

Niue

all UN member states except Andorra, Canada, South Sudan, and the United States as of 2022

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Languages:

Arabic

Mandarin

English

French

Russian

Spanish

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G-7 announced goals of an open and cooperative international Climate Club towards establishing it by the end of 2022.

Group of 7 (G7) members:

Canada,

France

Germany

Italy

Japan

the UK

and the US.

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