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