Deck 8: Sustainability and Environmental Knowledge

Question 1

Which company was the first to publish a sustainability report?

Answer 1

In the 1980s, companies in the chemical industry and firms with high environmental footprint started publishing environmental reports, partly in response to corporate environmental disasters. There is some uncertainty around which company was the first to publish such a report.

Question 2

What forms of capital make up the five capitals model?

Answer 2

Natural or nature's capital, human capital, human-created capital, social capital, and cultural capital (chapter 2).

Question 3

In which ways can value be created by sustainability-driven businesses?

Answer 3

Seven ways: risk mitigation, efficiency opportunity, factor of differentiation, pathway to new markets, a way to protect and enhance the brand, influencing industry standards, driver of radical innovation (see chapter 4).

Question 4

What does the ABCD stand for in Planning in Natural Steps?

Question 5

What are the four strategies in Natural Capitalism?

Question 6

What do the following equations stand for?
- $\quad \mathrm{I}=\mathrm{P} \times \mathrm{A} \times \mathrm{T}$ and
- $\quad \mathrm{I}=\frac{\mathrm{P} \times \mathrm{A}}{\mathrm{T}}$

Question 7

How much of household waste in the UK is recycled, in percentage?

Question 8

Name 3 labels or standards.

Question 9

What are the two main instruments in incentive regulation?

Question 10

What are the elements of the waste hierarchy?

Question 11

Can you explain biomimicry?

Question 12

What are the elements of the Deming cycle of continual improvement in EMS?

Question 13

Name 3 rating schemes that rank companies according to their sustainability performance.

Question 14

What are training methods for green HRM?

Question 15

Where was the first (political) party campaigning on an environmental platform?

A) German Green Party
B) United Tasmania Group
C) Popular Movement for the Environment (CH)
D) PEOPLE (UK)

Question 16

What is Patagonia?

A) Region in South America
B) Lake in Arizona
C) A company
D) A film

Question 17

Which of these ethical/sustainable brands is no longer independent?

A) Ben & Jerry's
B) The Body Shop
C) Abel & Cole
D) Innocent
E) Riverford

Question 18

What does MEA stand for?

A) Multinational Environmental Assessment
B) Multilateral Environmental Agreement
C) Middle East Airlines
D) Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

Question 19

What's the proportion of global youth surveyed that feel effects of climate change and that young people can make a difference?

A) 70-90%
B) 50-70%
C) 30-50%
D) 10-30%

Question 20

When was the ozone hole discovered?

A) 1970s
B) 1980s
C) 1990s
D) 2000s

Question 21

What percentage of the planet is covered by water?

A) 40%
B) 50%
C) 60%
D) 70%

Question 22

How much did UK consumers spend on ethical products in 2018?

A) £80-85 bn
B) £50-55 bn
C) £30-35 bn
D) £10-15 bn
E) under £5 bn

Question 23

What are the three sustainability levels?

A) Society, organisation, leadership
B) Care for all, care for me and you, care for me
C) Environmental value, social value, economic value
D) Planet, people, profit