pro local Quiz February

The ecological footprint of a person or a country is measured in global hectares (gha). If the biologically productive usable area of the earth (2022: approx. 12.4 billion hectares) is divided among the earth’s population, each person accounts for around 1.6 gha.

In Bavaria, Weißwurst is traditionally eaten with pretzels and sweet mustard.

Valencia: Spain’s third largest city has made great efforts in the field of environmental protection, which have now been rewarded with the award.

Biological diversity, also known as biodiversity, generally refers to the diversity of life. All living beings, whether animals or plants, are individually different and pass this uniqueness on to their offspring.

Bioplastics are bio-based plastics made from renewable raw materials such as corn, wood or sugar cane on the one hand, and plastics that are considered biodegradable in the sense that they can be composted under industrial conditions on the other.

The Structural Funds are primarily used to support the most underdeveloped regions whose gross domestic product per capita is below 75% of the EU average. It primarily finances investments to create and maintain permanent jobs and projects to improve infrastructure.

With upcycling, we give a disused object a new life cycle (“cycling”), which in the best case even represents an upgrading of the object (“up”).

In 2021, around 22% of gross final energy consumption in the EU-27 was covered by renewable energies. Sweden leads the way with 62.6%.

On a fourteen-day cruise in the Mediterranean, you will have emitted around four tons of CO2, almost half the amount of greenhouse gases that a person in Germany emits in a year.

As already indicated in the question, we are talking about the Paris Climate Agreement. This is a binding treaty under international law to slow down climate change and mitigate its effects.