Sustainability Quiz

______________ describes the processes for improving long-term economic well-being and quality of life without compromising future generations' ability to meet their needs.

• Good practices

• Sustainability

• Sustainable development

• Triple Bottom Line

The three pillars of sustainability are

• economy, society, environment

• society, environment, culture

• environment, politics, economy

• economy, environment, inclusiveness

Environmentally sustainable organizations take steps

• to improve their brand image by paying for carbon credits and achieving sustainability awards

• to enhance efficiencies, reduce resource consumption and waste, and measure and monitor carbon emissions across the entire supply chain.

• to enhance profits and living standards of employees but not the nearby communities

• to minimize waste and emissions at the cost of reduced profit and reduced salary to the employees

______________ are people who affect or are affected by an organization's practices and success.

• Employees

• Stakeholders

• Shareholders

• Individuals

__________is produced once every four years to inform the quadrennial SDG review deliberations at the General Assembly.

• Global Sustainable Development Report

• Annual Sustainable Development Report

• Quarterly Sustainable Development Report

• International Sustainable Development Report

______provides a comprehensive assessment of distance to targets based on the most up-to-date data available covering all 193 UN member States.

• SDG Index

• Index of sustainability

• Growth index

• Human Development Index

________is the market value of all goods/services produced in a given time period by the citizens of a country.

• Gross National Product (GNP)

• Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

• Net National Product (NNP)

• Net Domestic Product (NDP)

________indicates the level of prosperity and quality of living standards in an economy.

• Economic welfare

• Economic growth

• GDP and GNP

• Social growth

Simon Kuznets hypothesis: as an economy develops, market forces first increase and then decrease_________.

• economic inequality

• economic equality

• environment quality

• environment degradation

value-added cost is an expense that customers are______

• willing to pay for

• actually paying for product

• do not wish to pay for

• wish to pay partially