Consolidation facts Flashcards
What % of British people believe that migrants main motivation is welfare?
24% - It’s actually for work and family reunification 2/3 times.
What % of Bulgarian and Romanian people have migrated for work?
76%
What % of the UK population claims welfare benefits?
93% of welfare seekers are British Nationals.
What is Rishi Sunak’s ‘Stop the Boats’ sentiment?
A potential conservative bill that would send immigrants overseas to Rwanda, where they would be supposedly be given international protection.
What are the increasing statistics of immigration into the UK?
45,000 crossed the Channel in 2023 so far, as opposed to merely hundreds a few years ago.
What is CITES?
Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species:
Signed in 1975 by 181 countries.
Saved the Arabian Onyx. Has not saves ivory poaching in Japan.
What is the Montreal Protocol?
Formed to resolve Ozone depletion by CFC’s.
Signed in 1987 and all member nations successfully phased these out. As a result, the ozone layer was restored.
What is the International Climate Change Agreement?
1992 Earth Summit where countries made pledges to reduce GHG emissions.
They are not legally enforceable.
What is the UNCLOS?
United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea:
signed in 1982 by 167 nations. This agreement addresses:
- Protecting biodiversity. Abiding by IWC (International Whalling commission)
- shipping = 90% of all shipping occurs over sea. Invasive species.
- Exploration, development, and cultuvation of EEZ’s.
- Landlocked states: Bolivia may be granted land which Chile won from it 150 years ago.
What is the Arctic agreement?
1959 bill with 53 signatories.
No-one can own Antarctica, and it remains a continent of scientific and educational development.
20 permenent scientific plants are here, 7 nations have tried to lay claim to this area.
What are the ‘Helsinki Rules’?
Rules pertaining to the equitable share and use of transboundary water.
What is India’a ‘Caste’ system?
A system of social heirarchy with 3,000 castes and 27,000 sub-castes. It determines social status depending on caste or ‘class’. This has been around for millenia.
Indian officials are trying to phase this out in fear of it being discriminatory. Educational provision is now legally quotad to be provided for lower castes.
What are the four types of ecosystem services?
Provisional service: water qual.
Regulatory service: atmosph. temp.
resource service: food / wood
Social/ educational service: religious experiences.
