Summary: Fundamentals Of The Industry
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1.1 Climate and sustainability
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What are the Pilars of sustainability?
• Environmental: protecting natural resources and ecosystems
• Economic: creating long-term economic value and viability
• Social: ensuring fair treatment and well-being for all stakeholde -
What is a climate change?
- Long-term shifts in global temperatures and weather patterns
- Primarily driven by human activities since 19th century
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What is the difference between natural and enhanced greenhouse effect ?
- Natural greenhouse effect: The warming of Earth caused by greenhouse gases naturally present in the atmosphere. It makes Earth warm enough to support life.
- Enhanced greenhouse effect: Extra warming caused by human activities, like burning fossil fuels, which increase greenhouse gas levels and make Earth hotter than normal.
- Natural greenhouse effect: The warming of Earth caused by greenhouse gases naturally present in the atmosphere. It makes Earth warm enough to support life.
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How is climate change showing?
- Temperate changes (hotter summers, warmer winters, global averages since 1980)
- weather extremes: (stronger storms, more flooding, longer droughts, unpredictable patterns)
- Ice and Sea changes (melting ice, rising sea levels, coral bleaching)
- environmental shifts (plant and animal changes, earlier springs, wildfire increases
- Temperate changes (hotter summers, warmer winters, global averages since 1980)
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What are the human impact signs?
- Agricultural challenges: crops struggeling with changed rainfall and temperature patterns
- water shortages
- haalt effects (more heat-related illnesses )
- Agricultural challenges: crops struggeling with changed rainfall and temperature patterns
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How are the industries generally dealing with climate change?
- Carbon offsetting (often ineffective)
- green technology substitution without reducing consumption
- corporate sustainability report vs. Actual emissions
- Carbon offsetting (often ineffective)
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How industries should be dealing with climate change?
- Address root causes, not just symptoms
- question growth-dependent economic model
- prioritize wellbeing over GDP growth
- circulair econome principles
- Address root causes, not just symptoms
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1.1.1 sustainability and ethics
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How does ethics provides the moral foundations for sustainability?
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Whats a stakeholder responsibility?
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What is professional integrity?
Every operational decision is an ethical choice
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