Test your knowledge: the 'how' of climate change

On integrating climate action with poverty eradication: Ethiopia is currently a low income country; however, its ambitious green growth plans include a target for the country to achieve middle income status and also to:

Stop deforestation by 2020

Become carbon neutral by 2025

Become carbon negative by 2030

In ‘Shock Waves’ the report by the World Bank, what argument do the authors NOT make on the relationships between climate change and poverty?

We can delay action on climate change mitigation while dealing immediately with pressing poverty issues

Climate related shocks and stresses, already a major obstacle to poverty reduction, will worsen with climate change

Strengthening social protection measures and providing cash transfers are options for governments to manage some of the trade-offs and costs of climate mitigation action on the poorest

The Netherlands provides access to renewable energy to bypass use of fossil fuels to help reduce indoor air pollution and fight poverty. How many people would the Netherlands Foreign Ministry development cooperation department like to reach by 2030?

1 million

5 million

50 million

The Netherlands assists developing countries to deal with the impacts of climate change on freshwater availability and with the impacts of flooding. How many people did the Netherlands development assistance programme reach with climate-smart drinking water solutions in 2015?

100,000

1 million

5 million

Which of these priorities for Dutch climate change policy was NOT mentioned by Minister Ploumen (foreign trade and development cooperation) in her international climate agenda speech in 2013?

Partnerships with the private sector

Special emphasis on hydropower development

Take gender into account in all activities

The story of the shrinking glacier in Bolivia described by Roeland Buffinga, head of the Climate Team at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is an alarming one. 80% of the Chacaltaya glacier has disappeared in the last 20 years and the water flows to the downstream area have slowed to a trickle. What social and specifically gender-related impacts does Mr Buffinga describe?

Many men have migrated out of the area, leaving the women to farm as best they can

The women have given up cooking

The boys stare at the mountains in despair

Bonus question: How many millions of euros disbursed the Netherlands in climate finance in 2015?

�428 million

�528 million

� 328 million

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