CUET-PG Climate Adaptation, Climate-Smart Agriculture & Disaster Risk: practice questions

Question 1 · easy

In IPCC AR6 terminology, the presence of people, crops and assets in places that could be adversely affected is called

1. resilience
2. exposure
3. sensitivity
4. hazard

Question 2 · medium

How did the IPCC framing of vulnerability change between AR4 and AR5/AR6?

1. AR4 and AR5/AR6 use exactly the same definition, so the reports can be quoted interchangeably on this point
2. AR4 ignored adaptive capacity entirely; AR5 and AR6 defined vulnerability purely as adaptive capacity alone
3. AR4 put exposure inside vulnerability; AR5 and AR6 separated it and framed risk from hazard, exposure and vulnerability
4. AR4 framed risk from hazard, exposure and vulnerability; AR5 and AR6 merged all three into one vulnerability index

Question 3 · easy

Which is an example of a 'no-regret' adaptation option for farmers?

1. Soil water conservation, which pays off under any climate
2. Abandoning farming in a district on the basis of one climate model run
3. Building a large dam sized for a single high-rainfall climate projection
4. Planting only one high-yielding variety across the whole district each year

Question 4 · easy

What are the three pillars of climate-smart agriculture as defined by FAO?

1. Organic inputs; local markets; zero use of synthetic fertilisers and pesticides
2. Irrigation; mechanisation; high-yielding varieties on every farm in the region
3. Productivity and incomes; resilience; mitigation where possible
4. Carbon credits; biofuels; reducing livestock numbers in all farming systems

Question 5 · easy

Which list gives the four elements of an end-to-end, people-centred early-warning system?

1. Prevention; mitigation; response; recovery, as defined in the national disaster management act
2. Hazard; exposure; vulnerability; risk, as defined in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report
3. Satellites; radar; supercomputers; television broadcasts of the national weather forecast
4. Risk knowledge; monitoring and forecasting; warning dissemination; preparedness and response

Question 6 · easy

The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction covers which period, and which framework did it replace?

1. 2015–2030, replacing the Kyoto Protocol's adaptation provisions
2. 2015–2030, replacing the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005–2015
3. 2020–2035, replacing the Paris Agreement's adaptation goal
4. 2005–2015, replacing the Yokohama Strategy of 1994

Question 7 · easy

The National Adaptation Plan (NAP) process under the UNFCCC was established in 2010 under which framework?

1. The Marrakesh Accords of COP7
2. The Hyogo Framework for Action
3. The Bali Action Plan of COP13
4. The Cancún Adaptation Framework

Question 8 · medium

How do NAPAs differ from NAPs?

1. NAPAs identified urgent needs of least developed countries; NAPs address medium- and long-term needs
2. NAPAs address medium- and long-term needs of all countries; NAPs cover only urgent needs of small islands
3. NAPAs and NAPs are two names for the same document, used interchangeably in UNFCCC decisions
4. NAPAs deal only with mitigation projects; NAPs deal only with disaster response after events

Question 9 · easy

Which article of the Paris Agreement establishes the global goal on adaptation?

1. Article 6
2. Article 8
3. Article 7
4. Article 2

Question 10 · easy

In AR6, maladaptation refers to

1. a failure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in line with the Paris goal
2. actions that may raise climate risk, emissions, vulnerability or inequity, now or later
3. any adaptation that costs more than the damage it prevents in the first year
4. a natural ecosystem's genetic adaptation to a warmer climate over centuries