Sustainable Development And Global Business

Question 1

Sustainable development

Answer 1

Meeting the needs of current generation without compromising the ability for the next generation to meet theirs

Question 2

How to achieve sustainable development?

Answer 2

Requires economic development
(Standard of living)

Because poverty is the underlying factor to environmental degradation

Question 3

Technology coorporation

Answer 3

Transfer of technology from developed countries to developing countries

Question 4

Life cycle analysis or life cycle assessment

Answer 4

Information on lifelong environmental impact of a product from extraction to disposal

extract 
Design
Manufacturing
Distributing
Use
Disposal

Question 5

Industrial ecology

Answer 5

Design factories and distribution system as self-contained ecosystem that has a closed loop recycling (e.g use waste as raw materials for another production or energy from by product)

Question 6

extended product responsibility

Answer 6

Continuing responsibility for the environmental impact even after sales

Question 7

Carbon neutrality

Answer 7

Net zero emission of greenhouse gases

Question 8

Energy efficiencies

Answer 8

Own emission

Question 9

Carbon credits/ carbon offsets

Answer 9

Reduce others’ emission by planting trees or product clean energy

Question 10

Carrying capacity / ecological footprint

Answer 10

Measure the carrying capacity and how far human overshot it

Land and water required to produce resources it consumes and absorb its wastes

Question 11

Convention for climate change

Answer 11

Signed international treaty on global warming