BA 342 EXAM 2 QUESTIONS ANSWERED CORRECTLY LATEST UPDATE 2026

BA 342 EXAM 2 QUESTIONS ANSWERED CORRECTLY LATEST UPDATE 2026 penn states sustainability plan - Answers learn live through projects lead by telling other sustainability maturity path - Answers 1. value protection 2. value creation 3. increasing value compliance mode obligation efficiency leadership responsibilty - Answers the ability to act on ones own without supervision sustainability - Answers business that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. P&G video - Answers Want to turn their waste stream into value stream 100% renewable energy 100% renewable materials 0 waste to landfills sustainability triple bottom line - Answers profit planet people (social, government) language check sustainability - Answers used to be corporate responsibility now use sustainability stewardship model - Answers responsible management of resources, should always do the right thing environmentally conflicting points on sustainability - Answers 1. stewardship model shelter environment 2. use up environment - avatar 3 sustainability drivers - Answers population growth resource usage rate climate change 3 lenses - Answers scientific political economic externalities - Answers side effects or by-products of actions that are not intended and often disregarded. businesses acknowledged but dismissed these actions population - Answers we have seen exponential population increase and an emerging middle class which leads to higher usage or resources energy inefficiency - Answers wasting of precious nonrenewable sources of energy such as fossil fuels biodiversity - Answers the variation of life forms inside the system that serve as an indicator of the earths health. biodiversity is disappearing at an unprecedented rate which is threatening the planet to provide the required good and services tragedy of the commons - Answers in the absence of constraints people act in self interests that lead people to act in ways that wont sustain our shared resources 5 worlds - Answers this is the amount of resources that we would need for the worlds population to live equal to the us lifestyle. right now the u.s needs about 1 1/2 worlds to meet our needs other business drivers - Answers These fall out of the 3 sustainability drivers climate change energy water biodiversity and land use chemicals, toxics, heavy metals air pollution waste management ozone layer depletion oceans and fisheries deforestation emerging middle class article - Answers the middle class is increasing by billions Asia is a huge contributor to this the middle class in many developing countries are still very vulnerable middle classes in developed countries are shrinking and struggling OECD organization for economic cooperation and devlopement dan guide theme - Answers industrial systems that are economically and environmentally viable environmental impact of the industrial industry - Answers climate change exponential amounts of e-waste increased number of products with shorter life cycles increased awareness of problem Dan guide the problem to solve - Answers the problem is to design industrial systems that are environmentally and economically sustainable, they need to be profitable to work reduce - Answers in the PROCESS DESIGN pollution prevention materials used lean energy carbon footprint there is new regulatory pressures to reduce things such as greenhouse gases reuse - Answers this is in the PRODUCT DESIGN this can be the most profitable but companies are reluctant to use -repair -remanufacture -materials choice ex: shared savings contracts recycle - Answers design the products to be good for the environment material choice cost benefits business view of sustainability 4 - Answers fundamentals eco-efficiency product stewardship sustainability strategy product stewardship - Answers design for recovery selling services extended product responsibility closed loop supply chain supply loop constraint - Answers a supply loop is constrained when a process can not deal with the entire output of its upstream process -limited access to used products - limited technical feasibility reprocessing - limited market for reprocessed goods closed loop supply chain - Answers consists of the primary and secondary loops that deals with the the whole product and its components recycling and reusing them life cycle analysis - Answers looking at the whole life of a product from cradle to grave mckinsey resource revolution - Answers resource crisis began driving the third industrial revolution, changing crisis to opportunity driven by industrial and informational tech. -increase in natural gas -increase in solar energy how to change the intensity equation - Answers conservation innovation resource intensity bottom line - Answers developing population do and will increase the demand for resources, how can businesses assist in supplying greater utility with less resources mckinsey 6 climate change risk - Answers Value- chain risks Physical Price Product External stakeholder risks Ratings Regulations Reputation population bottom line - Answers providing goods and services for 9 billion ppl IPCC - Answers intergovernmental panel on climate change that reviews and assesses the most recent scientific data on climate change that provides info to the government to make policies, it does not conduct any research. United Nations a few thousand scientists that study climate 1. observational 2. study past and model it 3. model the future anthropogenic - Answers human caused SAS multiple select - Answers reusable mugs reduce staff travel lead certification innovation sas software for reporting solar farm for renewable energy offset co2 emissions hot water by thermal elevators low flow plumbing lead cfl plants compost as soil recycle batteries and ink local sourcing new buildings 1/3 recycled sheep for grass unilever 3 big goals - Answers Improving health and well being Reducing environmental impact by half -greenhouse gases, water, waste Enhancing livlihood -sustainable sourcing of people across the value chain skf geothermal heating - Answers went geothermal by increasing their innovation they decreased their energy use and intensity industrial policy - Answers government gives incentives for people to follow policies about sustainability ex: geothermal and light bulb 30 impact on water - Answers the earth is a closed loop system with a fixed water supply, so as populations grow supplies become depleted. our supplies are decreasing from drought, pollution, and mismanagement water bankruptcy by 2030 half of the world can be living in a water stressed area ozone depletion - Answers ozone is oxygen generated gas that is harmful to live hear the earth's surface but is vital to the stratosphere to block uv light from the sun. There is a hole in the ozone the size of north america oceans and fisheries - Answers 85% of fisheries are either at capacity, over capacity, or collapsed. but laws are being put in place to change this deforestation - Answers adds to the co2 levels because the dead trees are giving off co2 instead of absorbing it, accounts 20% global carbon emissions wicked problems - Answers problems that are interconnected, complex, uncertain, societal constraints, conflict seem to be a symptom of another problem environmental impact statements - Answers reports of studies that explain and estimate the environmental impacts of both questionable practices and irreversible uses of resources, the reports propose alternatives to the practices and uses EPA - Answers independant agency to to research pollution problems, aid in government environmental efforts, administer federal laws IBM corporate sustainability journey - Answers 1. legal & compliance - minimum what the law allows 2. value based self regulation (code of Conduct) * most companies here 3. efficiency - realize they can save money 4. growth platform - use it as a competitive advantage and growth green consumers - Answers there is a small market of green consumers willing to buy environmentally friendly products, hasnt changed much since the 90's they are young, well paid, educated, internet savvy, predominately female 87% concerned about the impact of their products 54% willing to pay a premium - but things are holding people back from paying green investors - Answers the market is growing 22% annually it is now at 15% of all total investments Global reporting initiative GRI - Answers global reporting frameworks for sustainability that wants to make it integral to their business decisions businesses, governments and other organizations understand and communicate the impact of business on critical sustainability issues such as climate change, human rights, corruption and many others. Dow Jones sustainability indices - Answers Report to dow jones and then they measure your performance a set of social, economic, environmental criteria that companies are graded on. many different indices sustainability reporting - Answers GRI Dow Jones