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- - poor countries are far more exposed to climate risks than rich coutries ( bear 75% of the costs)- - impacts of global heating undermine basic rights to life, water, food..
- - growing awareness - 2/3 think the federal government do too little- the costs of power from wind and solar have plunged by 70% - China = dominant produced of solar panels- America would be deprive of global influence over climate
- the risk of community discontent, growing inequality, deprivation- stimulate nationalist, xenophobic
- =A dynamic center of globalisationAir traffic is very dense > more than 146 passengers are arriving to or departing from London each year. = an international destination hub
- aren't doing enoigh - limit by spending billions on adaptation measures like flood barriers- but preparing for future threats will require transformational change that involve how people build homes, grow food
- - would stimulus demand - the transition to the green economy would likely usher in a new boom
- - president joe biden would like that number to be net zero - the most far-reaching climate bill ever enacted - it aims to decarbonise the economy by 2050- covered by a corporate-tax increase
- - open up the Amazon rainforest to mining
- Belief that objects, such as plants and stones, or natural events, like thunderstorms and earthquakes, have a discrete spirit and conscious life.
- 2 reasons why nations in Africa and Eastern Europe saw a huge drop in income in the 1990's
- Economic activities that involve processing and manufacturing raw materials into a finished product
- Economic activities that involve mining, fishing, agriculture, forestry are called?
- What stage of Rostow's Development Model do countries become major export industry with increased international trade?
- What stage of Rostow's Development Model do countries experience little ability to "move up" and become more wealthy?
- Wallersteins' world systems theory divides the world in 3 regions
- what country is stopping imports of plastic
- what city is using climate change to advertise
- what was first country to ban plastic bags
- United Nations conference- how many countries/ principles
- The galactic city model was developed in response to the growth of suburbs and the need for a more complex model than the sector and concentric zone models. Which of the following is a strength of the galactic city model?