32) Since the 1950s, which of the following weather-related disasters has occurred with the highest frequency across Canada?    A. hurricanes  B. tornadoes  C. heat events  D. floods

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30) Which of the following government regulatory mechanisms, limit the amount of emissions of certain chemicals (e.g. carbon) a given company may produce but allows that company to buy rights to produce additional emissions from a company that does not use the equivalent amount of its own allowance and is designed to reduce atmospheric pollution because the system will be a strong incentive to save money by cutting emissions in the most cost-effective ways?

  •  A. Carbon duty
  •  B. Carbon offsets
  •  C. Carbon cap and trade
  •  D. Carbon tax

31) As detailed by Dessler (2022), which of the following is the economic concept that refers to the idea of assigning a value to future economic losses or impacts caused by emitting one (1) additional metric ton of carbon today into the atmosphere

  •  A. Gross Domestic Product
  •  B. Social cost of carbon
  •  C. Ecosystem Services cost
  •  D. Carbon taxation

32) Since the 1950s, which of the following weather-related disasters has occurred with the highest frequency across Canada?

 
  •  A. hurricanes
  •  B. tornadoes
  •  C. heat events
  •  D. floods
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