Use and Production of Electricity

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16.4 Responding to Climate Change

1. Fill in the chart with three ways to conserve energy and three suggestions for alternate sources of electricity.

Ways to Conserve Energy Alternate Sources of Electricity

2. Why is it important for individuals to reduce their carbon footprints?

Transportation

3. Use the percentages to correctly fill in the amount of energy lost for each use. 2% 5% 14% 17% 62%

4. Why are vehicles in other nations more efficient than vehicles in the United States?

5. What is one way students could reduce their dependence on cars?

Other Approaches to Reducing Greenhouse Gases

Match each approach to reducing greenhouse gases to the statement that best describes it.

6. cap-and-trade a. program in which a government sets a 7. carbon tax limit on carbon emissions, but allows industries to sell leftover allowances 8. carbon offset b. storage system for carbon 9. carbon sequestration c. a fee the government charges polluters

d. voluntary payment made to reduce greenhouse gases 10. How can improved agriculture and forestry help reduce greenhouse gas emissions?

11. What is one identified difficulty with storing captured carbon underground?

Cooperation Among Nations

12. What was the main reason the plan drafted at the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change did not succeed?

13. Why has the United States not signed the Kyoto Protocol?

14. Why was the result of the Copenhagen Accord noted as a hopeful sign for the future?