Test your knowledge of environmental science and policy in this special quiz, devised for Green Week 2011. Answers to the questions can be found here.
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1. Forests are a valuable social, environmental and economic global resource. EU forests make up what percentage of the world's forests?
- 1 per cent
- 5 per cent
- 12 per cent
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2. Globally, construction accounts for what percentage of raw materials removed from the earth?
- 4 per cent
- 8 per cent
- 24 per cent
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3. Which city is European Green Capital 2011?
- Hamburg, Germany
- Copenhagen, Denmark
- Ljubljana, Slovenia
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4. What percentage of European animal species are now under threat of extinction?
- 10 per cent
- 18 per cent
- 25 per cent
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5. What percentage of the world's plants is at risk of dying out?
- 37 per cent
- 27 per cent
- 32 per cent
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6. Approximately 45 per cent of Europe's electricity supply comes from low-carbon sources, with around 5 per cent currently from wind power. Put these three countries in order of their wind power capacity, highest to lowest.
- Denmark
- UK
- Germany
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7. What is the name of the multinational protocol agreed in 1999 that set emission ceilings for four major pollutants (sulphur, NOx, VOCs and ammonia) for 2010?
- Vancouver protocol
- Gothenburg protocol
- Geneva protocol
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8. When will the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development be held?
- June 2012
- November 2011
- February 2013
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Find out how you've done by checking the answers here.
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