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| What is aa development agent | Entitiy or individual responsible for economic growth, investment, or infrastructure, often works with goverment initiatives, and private firms to stimulate progress |
| What is the role of business and private sectore in the UN SDGs | They drive innovation, investments, and sustainable economic growth. - Contribute by adding responsible business practices (Carbon Emissions) - Ensuring fair labor practices - sustainable production and consumption - Chain MGMT and ethical decision making - Leverage technology to enhance efficiency and minimize enviromental impact |
| Anthropocene | We are currently living in this area - it is where the enviroment we now live in is highly impacted by humans and the decisions we make |
| Climate Change | Significant and lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over time |
| What is greenhouse effect? | Process where thermal radiation from a planetary surface is absorbed by the atmosphere and is re-radiated in all directions - results in an elevation of average surface tempature |
| What human processes contribute to climate change (4) | - Fossil fuel combustion - intensified agriculture production - release chemicals causing depletion of the oznone layer - carbon sink depletion |
| Impacts of climate change (5) | - increase intensity and frequency of extreme weather events - transofrmation of terrestrial and marine ecosystems - failure of crops and threats to food supplies - forced migration - heightened regional and geopolitcal conflicts |
| Relationship between Business and Climate change (4) | - producer - innovator - employer - corporate citizen |
| Relationship between Business and Climate change (producer) | - major producers of greenhouse gas emmisions |
| Relationship between Business and Climate change (Innovator) | - opportunity for business to develop new goods and services, and methods of operations to reduce GHG emmisions, minimzie costs, and gain competative advantage for low carbon |
| Relationship between Business and Climate change (Employer) | - ongoing war for talent can be endarged if company brand is tarnished for being polluter - Positive corporate culture can improve retention - creation of new jobs such as environmental managers and sustainability managers |
| Relationship between Business and Climate change (Corporate citizens) | - business play major role in supplying social services and providing physical and economic infrastructure - cocntribute to solving social and political problems |
| What is Scope 1 emissions | Direct on site emissions |
| What is Scope 2 emissions | Indiret on site emissions |
| What is Scope 3 emissions | Upstream and downstream emissions in the value chain, outside companies operations |
| Explain the shower tub analogy | GHG emissions are growing at a rate faster than the earth can absorb them - we need to limit the flow of these so that the unabsorbed portions do not end up in the earths atmosphere - find alternative non carbon solutions |
| What are the 4 key elements of the emerging "climate economy" | 1 carbon efficiency 2 non-carbon soruces of energy 3 carbon capture, storage, and alternative use technologies 4 carbon pricing 5 carbon |
| What is carbon capture and storage | CO2 is seperated & captured, and transported underground for storage to isolate it from the atmosphere.Can be utilized in the production of consumer goods |
| What is Carbon Pricing | Placing a fee on carbon emmissions, gives an incentive for emmiting less |
| Who Made greenwashing and what is it | Jay westerveld - disinformation produced by a company to produce an environmentally responsible public image |
| Well intentioned greenwashing | Takes action on climate change but elects to do something ineffective, doesn't realize action has little consequences |
| Obfuscation | Acompany uses red herrings to draw attention away from how little it is actually doing for the climate "net zero target date far in the future" |
| Pseudoscience | A company uses unfamiliar terminology lacking meaning |
| Unprovable | A company makes a claim that cannot be verified |
| 4 ways to distinguish climate action from greenwashing | 1 tracking and disclosure of emmsions 2 setting emission reduction targets 3 reducing emissions 4 climate contributions (financial support) |
| What is environmental racism | Discrimination in environmental policy making, the deliberate targeting of communities of colour for toxic wast facility, history oe excluding people of color from ecology movements |
| Ecological Unequal Exchange | The concept that explain how rich countries benefit from using up the natural resources of poorer countries |
| Environmental cost shifting | Rich countries take resources from poorer countries, byut they dont deal with the pollution or damage |
| Appropriation of Enviromental space | Wealthy countries use more than their fair share of natures resources and limits how much poorer countries can use |
| Process of underdevelopment | Export raw material for cheap trapping poorer countries in a cycle where they are dependent on cheap resources |
| Socio - Politcal Locus | This refers to the broader politcal and social enviroment that influences organizations and industries |
| Socio - Politcal Locus | This refers to the broader politcal and social enviroment that influences organizations and industries |
| Socio - Politcal Locus | This refers to the broader politcal and social enviroment that influences organizations and industries |
| Socio - Politcal Locus | This refers to the broader politcal and social enviroment that influences organizations and industries |
| Socio - Politcal Locus | This refers to the broader politcal and social enviroment that influences organizations and industries |
| Socio - Politcal Locus | This refers to the broader politcal and social enviroment that influences organizations and industries |
| Socio - Politcal Locus | This refers to the broader politcal and social enviroment that influences organizations and industries |
| Socio - Politcal Locus | This refers to the broader politcal and social enviroment that influences organizations and industries |
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| Socio - Politcal Locus | This refers to the broader politcal and social enviroment that influences organizations and industries |
| Socio - Politcal Locus | This refers to the broader politcal and social enviroment that influences organizations and industries |
| Socio - Politcal Locus | This refers to the broader politcal and social enviroment that influences organizations and industries |
| Socio - Politcal Locus | This refers to the broader politcal and social enviroment that influences organizations and industries |
| Socio - Politcal Locus | This refers to the broader politcal and social enviroment that influences organizations and industries |
| Socio - Politcal Locus | This refers to the broader politcal and social enviroment that influences organizations and industries |
| Socio - Politcal Locus | This refers to the broader politcal and social enviroment that influences organizations and industries |
| Richard Wilkinson: Equity and Wellbeing | - more equal societies tend to have better social wellbeing - Addressing inequality is a key to a helathier, fairer, and more sustainable world |
| Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty first century | - wealth inequalities tend to grow overtime unless actively corrrected - rich keep getting richer - without progressive taxation or wealth distrubution inequlaity keeps rising - focuses on wealth rather than income because it includes peoples assets and they can passing this on for generations |
| Our Current economic system is | Rests on the belief that people behave by making rational economic choices, which ahs led to an unstainalble social and environemntal reality |
| Utalitarian argument | - Profit driven market capitalism, provides the best for the most -increase GDP and per capita incomes as proof that it is best way for organzing economic efforts |
| The Libertarian argument | - people should be free to do what they want - right to personal property - regulation limits individual freedoms, so role of goverment should be to enforce contracts rather than restrict action |
| What does Canada's new gilled age mean | Corporations are earning highest profits ever while paying employees the lowest wages ever |
| Societies with higher levels of economic inequality tend to have higher what | Social and health problems |
| What is social sustainability | Refers to aspects of sustainability and development related to the people |
| World banks four components of social sustainability | 1 Social Cohesion 2 inclusion 3 resilience 4 Process legitimacy |
| World banks four components of social sustainability (social cohesion) | Societies characterized by high levels of trust enabling people to work together |
| World banks four components of social sustainability (Inclusion) | Societies where people can thrive |
| World banks four components of social sustainability (resilience) | Socities that can withstand shock without significant losses |
| World banks four components of social sustainability (process legitimacy) | Society that accepts who has power, and legitimacy of how polices and programs are designed to be implemented |
| Different ways to approach social sustainability (analytical) | Studying and understanfing social sustainability scientifically |
| Different ways to approach social sustainability (Normative) | Focusing on what should be done from a moral or ethical standpoint |
| Different ways to approach social sustainability (operative) | How policies, nusiness practces, or community programs can implement social sustainability |
| Micro Vs Meso Vs Macro Levels | Micro: how individuals or small communites experience sustainability Meso: how organizations, cities support social sustainability Maco: How nations and international systems shape social sustainability |
| Organizational locus | This refers to what happens inside a single organization |
| Inter-organizational Locus | This refers to intercations between companies, such as partnerships |
| Socio - Politcal Locus | This refers to the broader politcal and social enviroment that influences organizations and industries |
| 3 major fields of ethics | Normative Applied Metaethics |
| What is business ethics | An applied form of ethics that addresses principles and problems that arise in doing business Ex) how do we balance what is right and whats profitable |
| Brundtland Report | Meeting the needs of the present without comprimising the ability of future generations to meet their needs |
| Consequentalism | An ethical theory that judges whether or not something is right by what its consequences are |
| Utilitarianism | A consequentialist ethical framwork that attempts to quantitatively maximize the good done to the world |
| Deontology | Focuses on rights and duties 1 consider what would occur if everyone were to take the action you are consider 2 treat people as ends, not just a means to ends |
| Kantian Ethics | Human reason determine ethics and ethics should be based and critiqued on rational grounds |
| Categorical imperative | Moral statements that are universal because of intrinsic qualities rather than because of their source or consequences |
| John Rawls theory of justie | The natural state of human is freedom, but humans will rationally submit to restriction on their freedom to secure mutual safety and benefit |
| 3 v's of big data | Volume velocity variety |
| Biometric monitoring devices | Sensors embedded in everyday objects that collect biologcal, physiological, or behavioural data |
| The international Labor Organization defines decent work as | Productive work for women and men in conditions of freedom, equity, security and human dignity |
| Abolitionist position (non human animals) | Morally wrong to abuse or kill animals because there are beings with desires, beliefs, and interests |
| Ethics | Branch of philosophy that is concerned with what is morally right or wrong, just or unjust |
| Why is sustainability an ethical issue | Involves understanding rights, obligations, and interdependence |