V182 Final
This term refers to efforts to deal with the effects of climate change.
What is adaptation?
This theory suggests that all countries will eventually develop welfare states.
What is convergence?
The WTO ruled against Mexico regarding its complaints about labelling of this product.
What is dolphin-safe tuna?
This term refers to a theory that national borders are becoming less important.
What is hyperglobalization?
This term refers to encouraging refugees living in camps to work legally.
What is local integration?
This principle means that imported products must be treated the same as domestic products.
What is national treatment?
This term refers to the process of attaining citizenship for immigrants..
What is naturalization?
Under this principle, refugees cannot be forced back to their country of origin.
What is non-refoulement?
This term refers to moving a refugee to a safe third country for permanent residency.
What is resettlement?
The Trump administration refused to appoint a representative to this portion of the WTO.
What is the Appellate Board of the Dispute Settlement Board?
This party to the Paris Climate Accord has committed to the deepest cuts in GHGs.
What is the European Union?
Under this global agreement, wealthy industrialized countries were legally required to reduce GHGs by 5%.
What is the Kyoto Agreement?
This term refers to economic growth that occurs when a majority of the population is of working age.
What is the demographic dividend?
This term refers to programs that require recipients to provide proof of low income.
Who is means-tested
This term refers to money set aside to assist developing countries with climate issues.
Who is the Green Climate Fund?
COVAX is
a global initiative to vaccinate people in developing countries
A tariff is
a tax on imported goods
The UN Secretary-Geenral referred to a "climate action army" in his closing remarks. Members of the army are
climate activitists who push governments and companies to act
The U.S. initially strongly ______ the creation of a binding dispute resolution system for the WTO.
favored
In 1918 millions of people died from
What is Spanish flu?
This term refers to a WHO declaration that a disease outbreaks is serious.
What is a PHEIC?
This term refers to a voluntary commitment by a nation-state to take action on climate change.
What is a nationally-determined contribution or NDC?
Our text states that __% of published climate research agrees that humans are causing contemporary climate change.
97
In 2003 ___________ refused for months to admit the outbreak of the infectious disease that was eventually identified as SARS.
China
Look at the Table 13-1 on page 332. Which country was responsible for the largest percentage share of global emissions in 2013?
China
Regarding the WHO's response to the coronavirus, critics complain about too much influence from _____________?
China
What did the WHO do in response to complaints about its slow response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak? Choose all that apply.
Created a reserve force of public health workers, added an incident management system to place personnel & supplies on the round right away, created a $100 million emergency fund.
Choose all that apply.... In addition to the Glasgow Pact, some but not all countries agreed to
Cut emissions of methane by 30% by 2030, halt and then reverse deforestation by 2030
According to our assigned reading, which of these could be considered one of the World Health Organization's successes? Choose all that apply.
Eradication of smallpox, reduction in polio infections, leadership during SARS epidemic
An asylum seeker is always a refugee.
False
At Glasgow, countries agreed to provide adequate funding for developing countries to adapt to the effects of climate change.
False
GATT eliminated all tariffs in 1947.
False
In import-substitution, a nation tries to produce only those things that it can produce most efficiently.
False
Most of the countries that host large numbers of refugees are wealthy and have low unemployment levels.
False
Safe return of refugees to their country of origin is likely to be a good solution in the next decade.
False
Scientific research on climate change began in 1992.
False
The WHO's guidance on how to respond to a public health emergency is legally binding on member governments. If the WHO requires travel and trade restrictions, they must be followed or countries face economic sanctions.
False
The author states that there is enough financial investment to achieve satisfactory levels of global vaccination. The problem is not money, but time.
False
Third-country solutions are working well because of anit-immigrant sentiment in the U.S. & Europe.
False
Under most favored nation rules, some GATT members get better treatment than others.
False
This term refers to trade barriers that are NOT taxes.
What is a non-tariff barrier?
_____________________ are responsible for monitoring and reporting outbreaks of disease.
Member governments
Which of these could be an example of a non-tariff barrier? (choose all that apply)
Procurement rules, packing/labelling rules, subsidies
Under GATT, which of these were acceptable reasons to limit trade? Choose all that apply.
Protecting national security, preferential or regional trade deals, protecting animal or human health
Choose all that apply: The Glasgow Climate Pact
States that carbon emissions will have to fall by 45 percent by 2030 to keep alive the 1.5°C goal, was signed in 2021, calls for nations to return with new, more ambitious targets in 2022
The author says that there are three main obstacles to global vaccination for COVID. Choose the three
Supply, financing, delivery
The Global Compact on Migration was signed in 2018 and calls for UN members to (choose all that apply):
Support conditions in countries of origin for return in safety and dignity, Enhance refugees self-reliance, Ease pressures on host countries, Expand access to third-country solutions
According to the assigned materials, which country hosts the largest number of refugees in the world?
Turkey
Although formally the WTO operates on a one country-one vote basis, in practice larger economies have greater influence.
True
GHGs have been present in the atmosphere for billions of years.
True
Glasgow attempted to increase accountability with enhanced transparency.
True
Preferential trade agreements, or agreements between two or more countries, are legal under WTO rules.
True
Up to 2020, which of these has been the largest funder of the WHO?
United States
What entity can declare a PHEIC (pronounced "fake")?
WHO
Persons who have crossed a border but not yet been designated as refugees are called...
What are asylum seekers?
These rules require WHO member countries to report disease outbreaks.
What are the International Health Regulations?
Under these regional agreements, persons fleeing economic or natural disaster may be considered refugees.
What are the OAU and Catagena agreements?
The WHO reformed its emergency response mechanisms because of this disease outbreak in Africa.
What is Ebola?
This agreement set up on-going talks to reduce trade barriers beginning in 1948 and continuing into the 1990s.
What is GATT or the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade?
This international test ranks the performance of schools around the world.
What is PISA, or the Program on International Student Asessment?
The WHO publicly reprimanded China for delayed reporting of the outbreak of this disease.
What is SARS?
Efforts to improve humans' ability to adjust to a changing climate are referred to as
adaptation
The new WTO contained ___ of the rules from the GATT.
all
The concept of comparative advantage means that specialization benefits
all nations involved in trade
The Paris Agreement on Climate Change
allows nations to determine their own commitments
The purpose of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) is
assess & summarize global climate research to inform policy
According to our reading, the WHO is controlled by
delegates from 194 member states
Refugees are defined by international law as people who are outside of their country of origin
due to a well-founded fear of persecution
What is meant by responsible technology transfer?
encouraging licensing technology to proven partners in developing countries
The Doha Round
failed to produce an agreement
What does GHG stand for?
greenhouse gas
Under WTO rules according to our E-text, what is the role of the Dispute Settlement Body?
it acts as a quasi-court and can make judgments that force countries to change their domestic laws
Efforts to reduce GHG emissions are referred to as
mitigation
When can the principle of non-refoulement be legally violated?
never
Non-refoulement means that
no person should be forced to return to a place where he/she is at risk of persecution
The Trump administration announced that the U.S. will withdraw from Paris Agreement. After this announcement, what did China and the EU do?
signed a declaration to forge a stronger bilateral alliance to address climate change
If a member state is found to be in violation of WTO rules, what happens
the harmed party can ask the DSB to allow it to impose retaliatory trade sanctions; enforcement is up to the member states
What is the significance of regional refugee conventions such as Africa's 1969 OAU Convention and Latin America's 1984 Cartagena Declaration
they broaden the definition of refugees to include large groups of people fleeing generalized violence
Most of the WHO budget comes from
voluntary contributions
What is meant in this article by "delivery challenges"?
weak infrastructure & limited personnel in developing countries may make it hard to reach those who need vaccines