Lesson 3B.3.3

3B.3.3 Effectiveness of human rights and environmental governance Quiz: Pearson Edexcel Politics, Unit 4

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The 20 questions

  1. What principal barrier prevents international courts from enforcing their human rights rulings?

    • Universal jurisdiction
    • Lack of precedent
    • Absence of codification
    • State sovereignty

  2. Which issue causes frequent controversy regarding the fairness of international human rights courts?

    • Lack of judges
    • Selective prosecution
    • Excessive funding
    • Over-enforcement of rulings

  3. What is a major strength of global environmental summits like Rio, Kyoto, and Paris?

    • Creating shared frameworks
    • Guaranteeing compliance
    • Enforcing military sanctions
    • Eliminating global capitalism

  4. Why do international environmental agreements often fail to meet their climate goals?

    • Voluntary compliance
    • Universal enforcement mechanisms
    • Binding global sanctions
    • Strict legal penalties

  5. How do non-governmental organisations (NGOs) mainly influence state environmental policy?

    • Raising public awareness
    • Deploying peacekeeping troops
    • Passing binding laws
    • Imposing trade sanctions

  6. What is a major obstacle to international co-operation on environmental issues?

    • Vanishing ecosystems
    • Lack of technology
    • Absence of treaties
    • North-South divide

  7. What primary factor limits the enforcement power of international human rights courts?

    • State sovereignty
    • Electoral cycles
    • Global poverty
    • Lack of judges

  8. What key limitation weakens the global effectiveness of the International Criminal Court?

    • High membership fees
    • Excessive supranational power
    • Non-membership of powers
    • Mandatory military force

  9. A state ratifies an environmental treaty but fails to meet its targets. What does this illustrate?

    • Supranational authority
    • Absolute jurisdiction
    • Compliance gap
    • Binding enforcement

  10. What key issue divides shallow-green and deep-green environmental thinkers?

    • Carbon emissions
    • Biodiversity loss
    • Economic growth
    • Renewable energy

  11. What was a major strength of the 2015 Paris Agreement compared to the Kyoto Protocol?

    • Military enforcement powers
    • Universal carbon tax
    • Near-universal participation
    • Legally binding emissions

  12. Which element provides global environmental governance with soft power, despite lacking enforcement?

    • Supranational coercion
    • Norm creation
    • Binding sanctions
    • Military intervention

  13. Why are international environmental treaties often weakly enforced in practice?

    • NGO opposition
    • Sovereign implementation control
    • Lack of consensus
    • Automatic UN intervention

  14. A permanent Security Council member blocks intervention in a humanitarian crisis. What does this illustrate?

    • Supranationalism
    • Judicial review
    • Compulsory jurisdiction
    • P5 veto power

  15. Why is international law considered weaker than domestic law?

    • No world government
    • Excessive supranational courts
    • Universal military enforcement
    • Unwritten legal codes

  16. A treaty requires a 30 per cent cut from a base-year level of 1000 million tonnes. What is the target level of emissions?

    • 700 million tonnes
    • 730 million tonnes
    • 800 million tonnes
    • 600 million tonnes

  17. A country rejects data showing rising emissions. Which obstacle to climate agreements does this highlight?

    • Cultural imperialism
    • Financial sanctions
    • Absolute veto power
    • Measurement disputes

  18. A state refuses to extradite a suspect to an international court. What challenge does this show?

    • Global federalism
    • Limits of sovereignty
    • Excessive supranational power
    • Universal jurisdiction

  19. What is the main reason NGOs cannot resolve global environmental issues independently?

    • Lack of enforcement power
    • Lack of global reach
    • Lack of media attention
    • Lack of expert staff

  20. Which change would most significantly increase the effectiveness of the International Criminal Court?

    • Abolishing the tribunal
    • Decreasing total funding
    • Removing jurisdiction
    • Major power ratification

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