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Learning Outcome 1: Propose a plan to address the issue of global food security in underdeveloped countries that considers the impact of prior solutions.

Learning Outcome 2: Assess the threats to the global environment and make suggestions for potential mitigation initiatives.

Assessment 1 - Threats to the Global Environment PowerPoint Deck and Their Counterarguments

The United Nations has continued to retain you as a consultant for a two-Section project. Many member states are dissatisfied with the progress of the eight Millennium Development Goals for international development that were established by that body in 2000. They see a substantial disconnect between what issues developed and developing countries believe are priorities. For example, Burundi wants one of the goals to focus on food security, while Austria is adamant that a major global issue should be the negotiation of ceasefires in countries in the midst of civil wars.

Section I Initial Argument

You are to identify issues you feel most impact the global environment unfavorably, so of the eight major threats listed below, choose the four that you consider the most critical.

Your UN contract calls for you to:

Question 1. Develop a minimum of four slides per issue, for a minimum total of 16 slides.

Question 2. Provide at least a paragraph on each slide in the notes section that includes a history of each issue and what type of economic, political, social or environmental threat the problem poses to populations in the developing world.

Question 3. DO NOT make your slides just a series of bullets; rather write out comprehensive NOTES at the bottom of each slide to explain your position on each of the four issues. (See image of typical slide at right with explanatory note at bottom. EVERY SLIDE MUST HAVE NOTES).

Question 4. For each issue, use one of your four slides to create a graph or chart that analyzes the data you have collected.

Question 5. You must have at least eight credible citations excluding dictionaries, encyclopedias and Wikipedia.

Section II Counter argument

Some member states are challenging your four recommendations from above and questioning why you did not include other issues they believe should be priorities. As such, there are four remaining threats in the list of major global issues that you did not include in your PowerPoint deck.

Question 1. Choose two of these four major threats and, in a WORD document, write at least one page on each explaining why they are less of a priority to the global environment than the four you selected in the first Section of the assignment.

Question 2. Each counterargument must include:
• an opening statement describing why the issue might be perceived by some as a threat;
• three reasons arguing why you did not identify each of the two issues as a threat; and
• a conclusion

Question 3. The entire two-Section assignment must be submitted together, Section I as a PowerPoint deck and Section II as a Word file. Both Sections are to be submitted in the same dropbox in Week 10 of Blackboard.

Attachment:- Threats to the Global Environment.rar