Week 8

Question 1

Demographic change

Answer 1

Shifts in size and patterns of population over time, including the distribution of wealth and poverty.

Question 2

Ecosystem change

Answer 2

Variations over time in the Earth’s natural capital affecting the planet´s ability to sustain future generations

Question 3

Climate change

Answer 3

changes in the Earth’s climate over time due to natural variability and human activity

Question 4

Demographic trends

Answer 4

World population growth
Ageing Society
Rising Middle class
Urbanization

Question 5

Sustainability challenges

Answer 5

Climate Change
Biodiversity loss
Pollution and waste
Depletion of resources

Question 6

Sustainability

Answer 6

is the capacity to support, maintain or endure.

Question 7

The five capitals

Sustainability means balancing different types of capital

Answer 7

Manufactured Capitals
Financial Capital
Social Capital (anything that we build as a society)
Human Capital
Natural Capital (biggest one)

Question 8

What is business sustainability?

Answer 8

If sustainability is the ability to support, maintain or endure…

Question 9

Then business sustainability is what?

Answer 9

Economic value
Social value
Environmental value

Question 10

Areas that see change: Energy

Energy: a lot of change happening & about to happen

Answer 10

Comparative advantage between countries

Renewables: Wind, Hydro, Biomass, Solar, Geothermal, Marine

Question 11

Areas that see change: Poverty

Answer 11

Absolute:
a fixed standard of what households should be able to count on in order to meet their basic needs or absolute deprivation

Relative:
cutoff point in relation to the overall distribution of income or consumption in a country or relative deprivation

Ethical issues when it comes to poverty and sustainability

Question 12

Business with resource constraints

Answer 12

Business as an enemy – business will keep being just focused on profit

Business as a positive force - focusing on shared value