Assignment:

PART A)

What can you do at each level: (minimum 2 points per section)? Explain how your idea works and
what impact it will have on climate change. More details such as costs, data and real-world examples
will give a better mark.

Home: personally, ensuring that my sister stops ordering menu log many times a month as well as
ordering less takeout, plus cooking our own meals with minimal amounts waste. with all wastage
turned into compost for our plants!

School: trying my best to make littering a but fading memory from which all will go into the bins or
reuse what you can into whatever you can so that we minimize the amount of litter so that we can
reuse as much as we can. Possible that we can keep our plant, our home clean to ensure its safety.

Community: I hope to keep my local areas clean by going around cleaning up each street, each block
clean, to ensure that our birds, our animals and anyone on the streets doesn’t eat or use the garbage
we litter the streets with.

Country: I think we should increase the fine for littering or destroying parks and animal reserves to
2000$ so that those who are most likely to commit such crimes such as junkies, teenagers and
adrenaline junkies.

PART B)

Minimum two paragraphs

Identify the climate issues / changes surrounding one of the following Australian relevant scenarios
and make suggestions to ease the issues facing these regions. Highlight the impacts humans have
had on ONE of these areas discussing social, political, economic, and environmental reasoning.

Rising sea level and coastal cities: the rising sea levels and excess flooding of costal areas such as
Melbourne, Perth. Sea level rise is one of the best known of climate change’s many dangers. As
humanity pollutes the atmosphere with greenhouse gases, the planet warms. And as it does so, ice
sheets and glaciers melt and warming sea water expands, increasing the volume of the world’s
oceans. The consequences range from near-term increases in coastal flooding that can damage
infrastructure and crops to the permanent displacement of coastal communities.

Over the course of the twenty-first century, global sea levels are projected to rise between about 2
and 7 feet, and possibly more. Accurately measuring coastal elevation over large areas is neither
easy nor cheap. Some countries, such as the United States, use a remote-sensing technology
called lidar to reliably map the heights of their coastlines, and publicly release the results. Lidar is
relatively expensive, however, typically requiring plane, helicopter, or drone overflights, as well as
laser-based equipment. Where lidar data are not available, researchers and analysts rely on one of
several global datasets.

most typically data sensed from Earth’s orbit through a NASA project that will measure the earths
climate, to ensure what is on the way can be told to the public to ensure that they know what is
coming so we won’t start ecofriendly energy too late.

PART C)

Minimum one paragraph

Access

https://atlas-for-the-end-of-the-world.com/world_maps_main.html

Select an environmental map of your choice, provide it for this assignment and discuss what it is
showing. Your discussion should focus on the environmental issue being displayed, what the colour
scale represents, which regions are m

World parks:
One-third of the world’s protected land is under intense human pressure, according
to an international study described as ‘a stunning reality check’ on efforts to avert a
biodiversity crisis.

The university of Queensland-led research has found six million square kilometres of
protected land – equivalent to two-thirds the size of China – is in a state unlikely to
conserve endangered biodiversity.

PhD candidate Kendoll Jones said in some cases the scale of damage was striking,
with the greatest impacts found in heavily populated places including Asia, Europe
and Africa.

“We found major road infrastructure such as highways, industrial agriculture, and
even entire cities occurring inside the boundaries of places supposed to be set aside
for nature conservation,” Mr Jones said. Professor Watson said well-funded, well-
managed and well-placed, land protection areas were extremely effective in halting
threats to biodiversity loss and ensuring species return from the brink of extinction.

“There are also many protected areas that are still in good condition and protect the
last strongholds of endangered species worldwide,” Professor Watson said.

“The challenge is to ensure those protected areas that are most valuable for nature
conservation get the most attention from governments and donors to ensure they
safeguard it.”
Mr Jones said all nations need to be honest when accounting for how much land they
have set aside for biodiversity conservation.

“It is time for the global conservation community to stand up and hold governments
to account so that they take the conservation of their protected areas seriously,” he
said.