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The Human Development Report 2016 estimated how many people in developing countries lack access to safe water?Read the answer and worked solution →Which global think tank published Limits to Growth in 1972?Read the answer and worked solution →The UN Conference on Environment and Development of June 1992, also called the Earth Summit, was held at:Read the answer and worked solution →The 1987 report Our Common Future, warning that growth patterns were unsustainable, is known as the:Read the answer and worked solution →The list of development practices recommended by the Rio Summit is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Resources outside the sovereign jurisdiction of any state, needing common governance, are called:Read the answer and worked solution →The Antarctic continental region extends over about how many million square kilometres?Read the answer and worked solution →Which tiny organism is central to the Antarctic marine food chain?Read the answer and worked solution →The Antarctic Treaty limiting activity there to research, fishing and tourism dates to:Read the answer and worked solution →The 1987 agreement protecting the ozone layer is the:Read the answer and worked solution →Because their historical emissions were low, China and India were exempted from the requirements of the:Read the answer and worked solution →The Kyoto Protocol was agreed in:Read the answer and worked solution →India signed and ratified the Kyoto Protocol in:Read the answer and worked solution →At the G-8 meeting in June 2005, India stressed that developing countries' emissions were tiny in what terms?Read the answer and worked solution →Indian per capita emissions were predicted to rise from 0.9 tonnes in 2000 to:Read the answer and worked solution →The Indian law of 2001 outlining initiatives to improve energy efficiency is the:Read the answer and worked solution →India ratified the Paris Climate Agreement on:Read the answer and worked solution →The first anti-dam movement in the North, in the early 1980s, sought to save which river in Australia?Read the answer and worked solution →The shared idea most important to Indian anti-dam and environmental movements is:Read the answer and worked solution →The Gulf region has about what share of the planet's known oil reserves?Read the answer and worked solution →Turkey, Syria and Iraq have exchanged threats over dams on which river?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the global commonsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the climate agreementsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the environment yearsRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the environment wordsRead the answer and worked solution →North or SouthRead the answer and worked solution →Sort agreements, movements and resourcesRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Environment politics bingoRead the answer and worked solution →

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The Human Development Report 2016 estimated how many people in developing countries lack access to safe water?

  1. 663 million
  2. 2.4 billion
  3. 3 million
  4. 170 million
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Correct answer: A. 663 million

1. 2.4 billion lack sanitation. 2. 663 million lack safe water. 3. Over three million children die yearly as a result. _Source: syllabus Contemporary World Politics, Chapter 8, Environment and Natural Resources._

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Which global think tank published Limits to Growth in 1972?

  1. World Bank
  2. Club of Rome
  3. Green Cross
  4. UNEP office
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Correct answer: B. Club of Rome

1. It dramatised the depletion of Earth's resources. 2. The Club of Rome published it. 3. Population growth was the backdrop. _Source: syllabus Contemporary World Politics, Chapter 8, Environment and Natural Resources._

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The UN Conference on Environment and Development of June 1992, also called the Earth Summit, was held at:

  1. Rio de Janeiro
  2. Stockholm city
  3. Kyoto in Japan
  4. Johannesburg
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Correct answer: A. Rio de Janeiro

1. It was attended by 170 states. 2. It met in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 3. It produced conventions on climate, biodiversity and forestry. _Source: syllabus Contemporary World Politics, Chapter 8, Environment and Natural Resources._

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