stratagies and effectiveness at combatting climate change

Question 1

1 - people encouraged to use public transport walk or cycle use of electric cars to cut on fossil fuel consumption

Answer 1

electric cars too expensive for mass adoption, trains and buses now include wifi to make transport more appealing

Question 2

2 - people are encouraged to use energy effecient lightbulbs as they waste less energy as heat

Answer 2

more expensive but last 10-50 times longer

Question 3

3 - households can reduce energy consumption by insulating their homes and switching off lights

Answer 3

not effective as people dont atuomatically switch to good habits

Question 4

4 - Goverment polices such as “helping housholds cut their energy bills” and encouraging them to use smart meters

Question 5

5 - switching to renewable energy such as octopus energy reduces the need for fossil fuels

Question 6

6 - Low emmision zones have been set up in majour cities to recudes emmisons and improve health in scotland

Question 7

7 - All new buildings in scotland must have low-carbon heating systems

Question 8

8 - Hosepipe ban during droughts

Question 9

9 - flood barriers to protect against flooding e.g the thames flood barrier which protects london from flooding

Question 10

10 - The paris agreement (196 countries) to limit climate change to 2C increase

Question 11

11 - The european union, EU contries must cut greenhouse gas emmisions by 55% by 2030 with a goal of making the EU climate neutral by 2050

Question 12

12 - the goverment in the uk encourages housholds to reduce, reuse and recycle products, by law all retailers must charge a minimum of 10p for each single use bag