Q. Which of the following cities have a glacier named after them?
1. Kyoto
2. Rio
3. Berlin
4. Copenhagen
Select the correct answer from the codes given below:
Answer: A
Notes:
The newly named Glaciers:
- Geneva is named after the world’s first climate conference in 1979. It set up the body that reviews the science – the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
- Rio commemorates the first Earth Summit in 1992 where the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was opened for signatures
- Berlin is named after the first Conference of Parties (COP) in 1995 which assessed the progress of dealing with climate change
- Kyoto commemorates the formal adoption in 1997 of the protocol that legally bound developed countries to emissions reduction targets
- Bali marks the release of the IPCC fourth assessment report (AR4) in 2007. Around this time, climate science began to enter the popular consciousness
- Stockholm honours the IPCC fifth assessment report (AR5) approval session in 2014. This report represented the biggest ever coming together of scientists at the time.
- Paris memorialises the agreement of a legally binding treaty in 2015 that aimed to limit global temperature rise to well below 2C, preferably below 1.5C
- Incheon marks the meeting of the IPCC in 2018 to consider the special report on the impacts of 1.5 degrees of warming and the difference in risks of going to 2C
- Glasgow hosts the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP26). Its aim is to embed strong policies to realise the goals set out in Paris six years ago
Copenhagen does not have a glacier named after it yet.
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