Deck 11: Climate Change, Population, and Reproductive Health

Question 1

Which of these is false about climate change?

A) Industrialized countries have contributed most to the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
B) Developing nations, where most of the world's people live, that will suffer the worst effects, of climate change.
C) Developing countries are more responsible than industrialized nations for the buildup of greenhouse gases.
D) All of the above
E) None of the above.

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Which of these models is used to project greenhouse emissions into the future?

A) I-PAT
B) Kaya Identity
C) STIRPAT
D) All of the above
E) None of the above

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Population dynamics are important in climate change dynamics because

A) Population projections provide information about the size and composition of the future populations, which are important for policy development and program planning.
B) The link between population dynamics and socio-economic development is important for adaptation.
C) There are links between adaptation and other demographic dynamics such as age structure, urbanization, migration and fertility.
D) All of the above.
E) None of the above

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Promising Population, Health, and Environment (PHE) programs have operated in which of the following countries?

A) Nepal
B) Philippines
C) Ethiopia
D) Cambodia
E) All of the above

Question 5

Building seawalls can be a strategy for

A) Climate change mitigation
B) Climate change adaptation
C) Reproductive health programming.
D) PHE
E) None of the above.

Question 6

Which of the following demographic variables affect energy consumption?

A) urban-rural residence
B) age structure
C) household size
D) All of the above.
E) None of the above.

Question 7

If world population were to follow the low UN population projection rather than the medium variant,

A) Worldwide carbon emissions would be reduced by 15% in 2050.
B) Worldwide carbon emissions would be reduced by 40% in 2100.
C) Climate change mitigation would occur.
D) All of the above.
E) None of the above.

Question 8

IPCC is an abbreviation for

A) Interplanetary Coordinating Council
B) Indian Policy toward Climate Change
C) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
D) International Policies Toward Climate Change
E) None of the above.

Question 9

The IPCC is convinced that climate change is occurring and that it is largely caused by human activities.

Question 10

Climate change adaptation is a human intervention to reduce the sources or enhance the sinks of greenhouse gases.

Question 11

Studies have shown that girls education is a cost-effective carbon abatement strategy.

Question 12

Climate change mitigation is a human interventions to reduce the sources or enhance the sinks of greenhouse gases.

Question 13

Globally, all population growth over the first half of the 21^st century will be in urban areas.

Question 14

If all unmet family planning need were met, climate change resilence would be decrease.

Question 15

Development policies and population policies are increasingly acknowledging climate change.

Question 16

For the most part, population and reproductive health have been ignored by climate change policies.

Question 17

Earth's 13 hottest years have all occurred since 1998.

Question 18

Developing countries will be building the equivalent of a city of a million people every five days from now to 2050.

Question 19

In communities experiencing climate change effects, people have a difficult time understanding the PHE linkages.

Question 20

Countries that have been designated as population and climate change hotspots have a lower growth rate than the global average.

Question 21

Climate change has no effect on reproductive health.

Question 22

The 26 countries designated as population and climate change hotspots have population growth rates higher than the global average.

Question 23

Worldwide, census data is more widely available at the local level for planning than at the national level.

Question 24

Population dynamics are not being adequately factored into programs to address climate change.

Question 25

Using the I-PAT formula, population increase in a country with high per capita GDP would have a smaller impact than that in a country with low GDP.

Question 26

Developing countries now discuss population stabilization as a strategy for addressing climate change.

Question 27

Bangladesh is a world leader in addressing climate change.

Question 28

How is climate change adaptation linked to vulnerability and resilience?

Question 29

Discuss how migration is related to climate change.

Question 30

In 2012, the countries of Spain and Tanzania had roughly the same size population, 46 million in the former and 48 million in the latter. Discuss their population projections and what implications these numbers have for climate change.