Sustainable Globalisation Flashcards
How can recycling,reusing and refusing help sustainable globalisation?
By raising awareness about local schemes to recycle or to refuse to buy items that have too much packaging or promoting a ban on plastic bags to encourage TNCs to manufacture/produce more environmentally friendly
How can local buying help sustainable globalisation?
Locally produced food and products clock up fewer ‘food miles’ which is better for the environment and supports local businesses
How does organic buying help sustainable globalisation?
Organic farming attempts to reduce the environmental impacts of food production by avoiding chemical fertilisers and pesticides
How do carbon credits help sustainable globalisation?
UK firms like Carbon Neutral Company offer organisations the chance to offset their carbon emissions eg planing a tree for every commercial flights that produced carbon.
What is Fair trade and how does it help sustainable globalisation?
Fair trade attempts to produce the economic unfairness of globalisation eg fair trade chocolate,coffee,bananas,wines
It helps as workers are paid a fair price for their work and money is invested in community schemes eg wells,schools etc
What are trade reforms and how do they help sustainable globalisation?
Government and international lobbying organisations have tried to improve terms of trade for poor nations eg the common agricultural policy paid subsidies for EU farmers which forced up the cost of imported African goods,helping African farmers.
How do charitable donations and international aid help sustainable globalisation?
Aid and NGOs like Oxfam and Christian aid collect money that goes directly to address economic unfairness of globalisation eg famine relief in Ethiopia through Band Aid
What is a negative of Fair Trade?
As the number of schemes grow it becomes difficult to monitor how fair they are
What is a negative of Charities and government Aid?
Aid can result in dependency for poor nations making it difficult for emerging businesses to make a profit
What is a negative of Trade reforms?
Europeans farmers continue to resist measure that could open markets as this could threaten their livlihoods
