Global sustainability (HSC Geography 2022 Focus Area 1) quiz

GDP per capita, infant mortality, and the Gini coefficient

Life expectancy at birth, mean and expected years of schooling, and GNI per capita

Population size, urbanisation rate, and total emissions

Trade balance, inflation, and foreign direct investment

Well below 2 degrees Celsius, with efforts to limit it to 1.5 degrees

Exactly 3 degrees Celsius by 2100

Below 5 degrees Celsius by 2050

Below 0.5 degrees Celsius by 2030

Stage 1, pre-industrial high birth and high death rates

Stage 2, falling death rates with persistently high birth rates

Stage 3, falling birth rates with continued slow growth

Stage 5, post-transition decline with natural decrease and ageing

Tuvalu's per-capita emissions are among the highest globally and its vulnerability matches them

Tuvalu's per-capita emissions are approximately 1 tonne CO2-equivalent per year while it faces existential sea-level rise threats

Tuvalu has no measurable emissions and no climate vulnerability

Tuvalu emits the same as Australia and faces the same risks

Around 1 percent

Around 12 percent

Around 50 percent

Around 95 percent

Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP)

Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)

AUKUS

North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

30 percent of GDP in conservation funding by 2030

30 percent of land and 30 percent of ocean by 2030

30 species per country by 2030

30 percent of carbon emissions by 2030

All countries must reduce emissions by identical percentages

Only developing countries are required to reduce emissions

All countries share responsibility, but developed and developing countries face different obligations reflecting historical emissions and current capacity

Climate change is not a shared responsibility

Around 10 percent

Around 30 percent

Around 70 percent

Around 95 percent

The 2019-20 Black Summer bushfires

China's 2018 National Sword policy banning the import of most contaminated recycling

The COVID-19 pandemic

The Suez Canal blockage in 2021

Goods

Capital

Labour

Weather

Defining sustainable development as meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs

Banning the use of fossil fuels in OECD countries

Creating the UNFCCC

Establishing the World Trade Organization

Switzerland's mountain agriculture

Bangladesh's early-warning systems and cyclone shelters reducing fatalities in major events from hundreds of thousands to under 1000

Saudi Arabia's desalination program

Iceland's geothermal heating