Major issue of rising sea levels and global warming.
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Insecurity factors:uncertainty
Extreme weather due to the rising temperature and changing precipitation
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Insecurity factors:increased evaporation
More water vapour, more ice sheet and glacial melt with accelerating changes due to positive feedback mechanisms.
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Insecurity factors:more impacts
More food insecurity, conflicts over water crisis, more vulnerable people plunged into poverty and environmental refugees, (e.g. Maldives).
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Sustainable strategies:use energy more efficiently
e.g. Copenhagen's CHP scheme. + Clean, low carbon dioxide emissions, cheap and only wastes 6% energy.
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Sustainable strategies: replace UK's plants for nuclear
+Less energy reliability -Controversial: radioactive uranium
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Sustainable strategies: conserve and reduce energy consumption
E.g. BedZed.. +If it worked then each residemtn would emit 40% less carbon dioxide emissions than the average UK resident. -It failed in 2005 and carbon neutrality is hard to reach,
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Sustainable strategies: expand the UK's forest with carbon offsetting
+Easy to do and they act as carbon sinks. -Less than 3% of the UK's emissions are offset by woodlands.
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Vulnerability in Bangladesh
* Coastal area, flooding and this destroys crops and increases hunger. * Increased temperature can lead to increased bacteria and water borne diseases. *Most densely populated country with 142 million. +Early flood warning and change land use.
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
Extreme weather due to the rising temperature and changing precipitation
Back
Insecurity factors:uncertainty
Card 3
Front
More water vapour, more ice sheet and glacial melt with accelerating changes due to positive feedback mechanisms.
Back
Card 4
Front
More food insecurity, conflicts over water crisis, more vulnerable people plunged into poverty and environmental refugees, (e.g. Maldives).
Back
Card 5
Front
e.g. Copenhagen's CHP scheme. + Clean, low carbon dioxide emissions, cheap and only wastes 6% energy.
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