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Q4(a) Work out to 2 d.p. the percentage fall in UK single-use plastic bag sales between 2021 and 2023.
Edexcel · 4EC1
Regulation comes up in 16 questions across the Edexcel International GCSE past papers (4EC1), worth 91 marks between them. They run from 2019 to 2025 and appear on iGCSE Paper 1, iGCSE Paper 1R, iGCSE Paper 2, iGCSE Paper 2R.
Tariffs run from 1 to 12 marks. The commonest instructions are Assess (5), Explain (3), Evaluate (2). Specification points covered: 1.1.6, 1.2.6, 2.1.2.
Q4(a) Work out to 2 d.p. the percentage fall in UK single-use plastic bag sales between 2021 and 2023.
Q4(c) Data response: is regulation an effective environmental safeguard? UK case (2023 single-use plastic restrictions).
Q1(g) Give one reason governments reach for fines.
Q3(d) Data response: regulation as an environmental safeguard, US case (Clean Air Act).
Q2(g) Data response: how well government regulation copes with externalities (context: Kenya's plastic bag ban).
Q2(d) Give the meaning of fines as a policy tool.
Q4(c) Data response: can regulation cure air pollution? Greater Manchester case.
Q2(b) Multiple choice on which measure would help protect the environment.
Q2(g) Data response: are fines an effective environmental safeguard? UK case.
Q2(h) Data response: can regulation tackle Jakarta's air pollution?
Q2(e) Give the meaning of a fine as a policy tool.
Q2(h) Data response: how well fines tackle externalities such as over-harvesting.
Q2(c) Name one government measure that protects the environment.
Q2(e) Give one benefit to a local government of issuing parking fines.
Q3(e) Data response: does regulation safeguard the environment effectively? Australia case.
Q3(c) Give one way a government can intervene to protect the environment.
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