Going Round in Circles
Scoping Out the Competition
Governance & Reporting
On the Case
Sector by Sector
Hodge Podge
100

This industry trend toward constantly changing styles and low-cost clothing has led to major environmental and social sustainability challenges.

Fash Fashion

100

This is your scope if you purchase electricity to run your store.

Scope 2

100

Greenwashing or Green Marketing?  

A $1 trillion industrial company has invested $5 million in research on carbon capture and storage.  They spent $5 million on an advertising campaign to tout their research as good for the environment.

Greenwashing

100

In the Good360 examples, which company identified a local non-profit to take returns from each of its stores?

Walmart

100

Which business sector is the 2nd biggest global polluter?

Fashion

100

A water footprint, which assesses water use across all stages of a product from raw materials to disposal, is an example of what?

Life Cycle Assessment

200

This logistics product accounts for 40% of harvested hardwood in the U.S.

Wood Pallets

200

Your office building uses a natural gas water heater to provide hot water for kitchen areas and bathrooms. What scope is this to your company?

Scope 1

200

The five pillars of a valid carbon offset are Quantifiable-Additional-__________-Permanent-Oversight

No Leakage

200

Which of Cathay Pacific’s sustainability initiatives was least successful?

Fly Greener

200

A leader in which sector said that weather and climate are 'core business'?

Insurance

200

*Fuel used by building construction vehicles

Is this "operational" or "embodied" carbon?

Embodied

300

If a store has 100% recyclable packaging, does that reduce its upstream carbon footprint?

Not likely

300

HasTEA contracts with a new distribution vendor that uses only renewable energy in its warehouses.  How would this change HasTEA's GHG report?

Lowers Scope 3

300

Which reporting framework is intended to consolidate and replace many of the individual reporting frameworks?

ISSB

300

Welspun encouraged their cotton farmers to focus on another crop in addition to the Better Cotton Initiative. What was it?

Silkworms

300

Flashfood is an app that is designed primarily to do what?

reduce food waste

300

Increasing energy efficiency in commercial real estate means tackling the issue of split incentives.  What is a common way to do that?

Green Leasing

400

If your company uses "Product as a Service" for circularity, does the product life-cycle end when it gets sent to another consumer?  

No

400

Your company contracts with a office supply vendor who ships the purchased supplies by commercial airline to your company.   What scope are these transportation emissions to the vendor and to your company?

Scope 3 & 3

400

A company has a sustainability action committee made up of mid-level staff from various parts of the organization.  How would you label the company's sustainability organization?

Integrated

400

The global airline industry (IATA) is trying to reach net zero CO2 emissions by 2050.  What is projected to contribute the most GHG savings by then?  

Sustainable Airline Fuel

400

What concept describes the number of tourists a destination can sustain without damage?

Carrying capacity

400

What is the name of the carbon pricing policy in the EU?

Emissions Trading Scheme (or cap-and-trade)

500

This stage of fashion production—responsible for heavy chemical and water use—is one of the most environmentally damaging parts of the industry.

Textile Dyeing

500

If your company converts its fleet from gas-powered to electric vehicles, how do your scopes change?

Lower Scope 1, Higher Scope 2

500

This principle requires companies to disclose only the sustainability issues that are significant enough to influence the decisions of investors or stakeholders.

Materiality

500

In the General Mills case, who did Carla Vernon/3BOU have to convince the company could announce the 1 million acre pledge?

Other BOU presidents

500

What is the biggest obstacle to tech companies expanding new data centers at their planned rate?

Limits of electrical grid infrastructure

500

These suppliers are described as the “riskiest members of a supply network” because companies often don’t even know who they are.

Lower-tier suppliers