HSRV 400 Governance & Leadership
correctly answered already passed
board diversity - correct answer ✔✔aims to cultivate a broad spectrum of
demographic attributes and characteristics in the boardroom. A simple and
common measure to promote heterogeneity in the boardroom - commonly
known as gender diversity - is to include female representation on the board.
Calvert Principals - correct answer ✔✔are the first systematic effort to apply
established labor and human-rights standards that protect women specifically to
corporate conduct. Calvert Women's Principles (CWP) are emblematic of our
leadership and dedication to the empowerment of women which guides our
investment research, corporate advocacy and
policy initiatives.
Gender Analysis - correct answer ✔✔refers to the variety of methods used to
understand the relationships between men and women, their access to resources,
their activities, and the constraints they face relative to each other. ... Gender
analysis is an essential element of socio-economic analysis.
gender gap - correct answer ✔✔is the difference between women and men as
reflected in social, political, intellectual, cultural, or economic attainments or
attitudes.
Status of Women - correct answer ✔✔continues to achieve concrete results for
Canadians, advancing equality for
,women in three priority areas:
ending violence against women
and girls; improving women's economic security and prosperity; and promoting
women's leadership and decision-making roles.
Climate change - correct answer ✔✔is a long-term change in the average weather
patterns that have come to define Earth's local, regional and global climates.
These changes have a broad range of observed effects that are synonymous with
the term.
COP 21 - correct answer ✔✔Officially known as The 21st Conference of the Parties
(or COP21) to the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
(UNFCCC), this meeting involves world leaders negotiating an international
agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions and hold planetary warming below
2°C (3.6°F) of preindustrial levels.
Corporate greening - correct answer ✔✔is a process that involves trying to adopt
green principles and practices in as many facets of the business as it is possible to
do so.
Earth System Governance - correct answer ✔✔is a recently developed paradigm
that builds on earlier notions of environmental policy and nature conservation,
but puts these into the broader context of human-induced transformations of the
entire earth system.
Environmental decision making - correct answer ✔✔is taken to mean decision
making that has an effect on our environment, however it is defined. ... Examples
, include our use of transport, making consumer decisions, planning new or
improved developments and managing natural resources.
Sustainability - correct answer ✔✔means meeting our own needs without
compromising the ability of future generations to meet their
own needs. In addition to natural resources, we also need social and economic
resources. Sustainability is not just environmental- ism. Embedded in most
definitions of sustainability we also find concerns for social equity and economic
development.
Environmentally specific transformational leadership - correct answer ✔✔has
been defined by Chen and Chang (2013) as 'behaviours of leaders who motivate
followers to achieve environmental goals and inspire followers to perform beyond
expected levels of environmental performance'
Greening organizations - correct answer ✔✔Drive results to meet greening
government environmental objectives. 1 to implement the government's
Greening Government Strategy. On this pathway, the government will reduce
Scope 1 and Scope 2 GHG emissions by 40% below 2005 levels by 2030, with an
aspiration to achieve this target by 2025.
environmentally sustainable behaviour - correct answer ✔✔Making behaviour
changes that will help with the environment such as the way we think about
different environmental policies that help with sustainability such as recycling or
walking to the store instead of driving.
organizational citizen behaviours for the environment (OCBE) - correct answer
✔✔
correctly answered already passed
board diversity - correct answer ✔✔aims to cultivate a broad spectrum of
demographic attributes and characteristics in the boardroom. A simple and
common measure to promote heterogeneity in the boardroom - commonly
known as gender diversity - is to include female representation on the board.
Calvert Principals - correct answer ✔✔are the first systematic effort to apply
established labor and human-rights standards that protect women specifically to
corporate conduct. Calvert Women's Principles (CWP) are emblematic of our
leadership and dedication to the empowerment of women which guides our
investment research, corporate advocacy and
policy initiatives.
Gender Analysis - correct answer ✔✔refers to the variety of methods used to
understand the relationships between men and women, their access to resources,
their activities, and the constraints they face relative to each other. ... Gender
analysis is an essential element of socio-economic analysis.
gender gap - correct answer ✔✔is the difference between women and men as
reflected in social, political, intellectual, cultural, or economic attainments or
attitudes.
Status of Women - correct answer ✔✔continues to achieve concrete results for
Canadians, advancing equality for
,women in three priority areas:
ending violence against women
and girls; improving women's economic security and prosperity; and promoting
women's leadership and decision-making roles.
Climate change - correct answer ✔✔is a long-term change in the average weather
patterns that have come to define Earth's local, regional and global climates.
These changes have a broad range of observed effects that are synonymous with
the term.
COP 21 - correct answer ✔✔Officially known as The 21st Conference of the Parties
(or COP21) to the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
(UNFCCC), this meeting involves world leaders negotiating an international
agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions and hold planetary warming below
2°C (3.6°F) of preindustrial levels.
Corporate greening - correct answer ✔✔is a process that involves trying to adopt
green principles and practices in as many facets of the business as it is possible to
do so.
Earth System Governance - correct answer ✔✔is a recently developed paradigm
that builds on earlier notions of environmental policy and nature conservation,
but puts these into the broader context of human-induced transformations of the
entire earth system.
Environmental decision making - correct answer ✔✔is taken to mean decision
making that has an effect on our environment, however it is defined. ... Examples
, include our use of transport, making consumer decisions, planning new or
improved developments and managing natural resources.
Sustainability - correct answer ✔✔means meeting our own needs without
compromising the ability of future generations to meet their
own needs. In addition to natural resources, we also need social and economic
resources. Sustainability is not just environmental- ism. Embedded in most
definitions of sustainability we also find concerns for social equity and economic
development.
Environmentally specific transformational leadership - correct answer ✔✔has
been defined by Chen and Chang (2013) as 'behaviours of leaders who motivate
followers to achieve environmental goals and inspire followers to perform beyond
expected levels of environmental performance'
Greening organizations - correct answer ✔✔Drive results to meet greening
government environmental objectives. 1 to implement the government's
Greening Government Strategy. On this pathway, the government will reduce
Scope 1 and Scope 2 GHG emissions by 40% below 2005 levels by 2030, with an
aspiration to achieve this target by 2025.
environmentally sustainable behaviour - correct answer ✔✔Making behaviour
changes that will help with the environment such as the way we think about
different environmental policies that help with sustainability such as recycling or
walking to the store instead of driving.
organizational citizen behaviours for the environment (OCBE) - correct answer
✔✔
