Ethics & Sustainability

Question 1

What is earth Overshoot Day?

Answer 1

Earth Overshoot Day (EOD), previously known as Ecological Debt Day (EDD), is the calculated illustrative calendar date on which humanity’s resource consumption for the year exceeds Earth’s capacity to regenerate those resources that year.

Question 2

What degree do we have to keep the temperature growth at?

Answer 2

1.5 degrees Celsius

Question 3

What is Sustainability?

Answer 3

the endurance of systems and processes

Question 4

What is sustainable development?

Answer 4

Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the
present without compromising the ability of future generations to
meet their own needs

Question 5

What is the “Triple bottom line”? (PPP)

Answer 5

Profit-People-Planet.

Question 6

Freeman 1981 said that a company’s aim was what?

Answer 6

To create value for Stakeholders.

Question 7

Who are “Stakeholders”?

Answer 7

Clients
Employees
the Future
Government
Shareholders
Pressure Groups
End Users

Question 8

What are the three kinds of “Sustainability Oriented Innovation”

Answer 8

1. Operational Optimization
2. Organizational Transformation
3. Systems Building

Question 9

What is Operational Optimization?

Answer 9

Making production and supply chains more sustainable
(CDP Report, 2017)
– Redesign operations to use less energy and water (less inputs,
less outputs)
– Produce fewer emissions and waste (more efficiency)
– Translate this capability to suppliers and retailers
 Manage (un-)sustainability
Sustainability starts with efficiency/eco-optimization
– Process improvement
– Operational efficiency
– Waste management and reduction
– Carbon footprint assessment (www.carbonfootprint.com)
– Life Cycle Assessment of products and processes

Question 10

What is organizational Transformation?

Answer 10

1. Anticipate and shape regulation
   • Work with other companies and stakeholders
   – e.g. HP, 2002 UE recycling platform developed
   together with Sony, Braun, Electrolux

Question 11

What is Systems Building (Societal Change)?

Answer 11

Novel products, services or business models that are impossible to achieve alone. “Doing good by doing new things with others”.

Question 12

What is the Circular Economy?

Answer 12

From «Taking, Making and Disposing»
To «Regenerating, Lasting, Sharing» .
From single-loop to Multiple-loops strategies

Question 13

What is the aim of “B-PLAS”?

Answer 13

Production of biobased and biodegradable

high performance plastic