CEP Climate Change & Carbon Footprint 2

Question 1

In a community-scale greenhouse gas inventory, which Scope category encompasses value chain emissions that are not owned or directly controlled by the reporting city?

Accepted Answer

Scope 3

Answer

Scope 3 encompasses all other indirect emissions in an organization's value chain, such as employee commuting, waste disposal, and supply chain activities not owned or controlled by the city.

Question 2

Which term describes a community's capacity to anticipate, prepare for, respond to, and adapt to incremental change and sudden disruptions related to climate change?

Accepted Answer

Climate resilience

Answer

Climate resilience refers to the ability of social-ecological systems to absorb, accommodate, and recover from climate-related stressors while maintaining essential structure and function.

Question 3

Under CEQA, a qualified Climate Action Plan (CAP) adopted by a local agency can be used to do which of the following for consistent development projects?

Accepted Answer

Streamline GHG analysis by allowing projects to tier off the plan

Answer

A qualified CAP under CEQA allows individual development projects that are consistent with the plan's GHG reduction measures to tier off the plan, streamlining project-level GHG analysis.

Question 4

What is a 'carbon offset' in the context of environmental planning and GHG accounting?

Accepted Answer

A verified emission reduction used to compensate for emissions produced elsewhere

Answer

A carbon offset represents a verified reduction or removal of one metric ton of CO2-equivalent from the atmosphere that an organization can use to compensate for its own unavoidable emissions.

Question 5

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was jointly established in 1988 by which two United Nations bodies?

Accepted Answer

UNEP and WMO

Answer

The IPCC was established in 1988 by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to assess scientific information relevant to climate change.

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CEP Climate Change & Carbon Footprint 2