Thank you for coming to the 2006 Goldman Environmental Prize ceremony!
Below is the quiz – and the answers – that was in the evening’s program.

1. The United States, which has 4.6 percent of the world’s population, consumes what percent
of the world’s oil?

a. 60 percent
b. 40 percent
c. 20 percent
(answer: b)

2. If the oceans rise 20 feet, as scientists now expect by the end of the century, San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts, the Giants ballpark, and Mission Bay will be under how many feet of water?

a. three feet
b. five feet
c. more than 10 feet
(answer: c)

3. The Antarctic ice sheet sheds 36 cubic miles of ice each year, which is enough to supply Los Angeles with fresh water for how long?

a. 36 days
b. 36 months
c. 36 years
(answer: c)

4. Which previous Goldman Environmental Prize winner was a founding father of the world’s newest nation and included environmental justice tenets into that country’s constitution?

(answer: Demetrio do Amaral de Carvalho, 2004 Prize winner from East Timor)

5. Where is the world’s largest contiguous group of protected tropical forest areas?

(answer: Pará, Brazil)