How is UN Environment governed?

Quiz Questions

• 1.
  What did the UN Conference on the Human Environment in 1972 achieve?

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    It laid the groundwork for environmental policy and development in the Stockholm Declaration
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    It banned the use of atomic bombs
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    It decided to start reducing the population of developing countries
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    All of the above
• 2.
  The Brundtland report, published in 1987 by the UN World Commission on Environment and Development, defined 'sustainable development'. What is the correct definition of 'sustainable development'?

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    Eco-efficiency is achieved by the delivery of competitively priced goods and services that satisfy human needs and bring quality of life, while progressively reducing ecological impacts and resource intensity throughout the life-cycle to a level at least in line with the Earth's carrying capacity
  • B.
    Sustainable development involves devising a social and economic system, which ensures that real incomes rise, that educational standards increase, that the health of the nation improves, that the general quality of life is advanced.
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    Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs
  • D.
    Sustainable development of renewable natural resources implies respecting limits to the development process, even though these limits are adjustable by technology.
• 3.
  What major event took place in Rio de Janeiro in 1992?

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    The Kyoto Protocol to mitigate climate change
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    The Earth Summit, establishing the framework of international treaties
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    The meeting of the United Nations General Assembly
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    The founding of UN Environment
• 4.
  What does UN Environment do?

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    It provides general policy guidance and reviews environmental programmes
  • B.
    It promotes environmental cooperation
  • C.
    It disseminates relevant scientific information
  • D.
    All of the above
• 5.
  What agency did UN Environment form together with the World Meteorological Organization in 1988?

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    IPCC
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    WTO
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    UNESCO
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    IUCN
• 6.
  How are environmental treaties enforced?

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    Infractions can be brought before the International Court of Environment
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    The Conference of the Parties of the various environmental treaties
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    The UN Security Council can impose economic sanctions
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    National legislation
• 7.
  What is the Global Pact for the Environment?

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    The international body that will supplant UN Environment
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    An environmental club initiated by golfer Tiger Woods
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    A UN initiative to encourage businesses to adopt sustainable policies
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    A UN treaty proposed by the President of France to define fundamental environmental rights for humanity

Quiz Outcomes

• 1.
  Beginner

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• 2.
  Intermediate

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• 3.
  Expert

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  You are following in the footsteps of Maurice Strong, UN Environment's first executive director. Have you considered scaling up your skills even further? The environment is one shape of international cooperation. How much do you know about other shapes? Take another quiz and increase your knowledge. The Global Challenges Foundation aims to promote the development of global decision-making models capable of more effectively and equitably mitigating and, preferably, eliminating the major global catastrophic risks threatening humanity. Visit https://globalchallenges.org to learn more about GCF’s work and join the Shapemaker community today.