Environmental and ethical issues
6.2What the syllabus asks of you
- Environmental concerns and ethical issues as both opportunities and constraints for businesses: How business activity can impact on the environment, e.g. global warming
- Environmental concerns and ethical issues as both opportunities and constraints for businesses: The concept of externalities: possible external costs and external benefits of business decisions
- Environmental concerns and ethical issues as both opportunities and constraints for businesses: Sustainable development; how business activity can contribute to this
- Environmental concerns and ethical issues as both opportunities and constraints for businesses: How and why business might respond to environmental pressures and opportunities, e.g. pressure groups
- Environmental concerns and ethical issues as both opportunities and constraints for businesses: The role of legal controls over business activity affecting the environment, e.g. pollution controls
- Environmental concerns and ethical issues as both opportunities and constraints for businesses: Ethical issues a business might face: conflicts between profits and ethics
- Environmental concerns and ethical issues as both opportunities and constraints for businesses: How business might react and respond to ethical issues, e.g. child labour, paying fair prices to suppliers
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Chapter 6: Environmental and ethical issues
Drill this topic
All 13 questions on Environmental and ethical issues, untimed — answer on paper, then mark yourself against the mark scheme.
Make a worksheet
Choose the years and how many questions, then print it with the answers on separate pages.
13 questions
These are structured questions, answered in working rather than by picking an option, so they are not listed here one by one. The drill above puts each in front of you with its mark scheme to check against.