Climate Change and Sustainable Business Futures
Assessment item 2 Analytical case study
Subject: Climate Change and Sustainable Business Futures
Topic
Using the material covered in this course, and other relevant academic literature, students are to investigate, analyse, assess and report on one Australian business’s climate change response and sustainability policies, strategies and actions.
A business given to you is: Australian Dairy Farmers
Components
In your presentation, you need to:(Australian dairy farmer)
- Introduce the business – what it does, what sector it operates in, size, products, performance, etc.
- Introduce the business’s current policies and management strategies in relation to climate change and sustainability, and how these are being implemented
- Using the material covered in this course, and other relevant academic literature, critically evaluate the business’s policies, strategies and their implementation in relation to climate change and sustainability, including a SWOT analysis
- Based on your analysis, and the material covered in this course and other relevant academic literature, develop a plan as to how these policies and strategies and their implementation could be improved to minimise business impacts relevant to climate change and to foster sustainable outcomes
- Reflect on how these developments could be used to further sustainable business futures for the industry sector in which the business operates
- Support your findings with relevant academic literature
Presentation – further detail
- Presentations must be 10 +/- 1 minutes in length with written 800 words script.
- PowerPoint format(Due date:26/04/20)
Introduce the business’s current policies and management strategies
Topics Covered in Class
Week 2:More About the meaning of Climate change
Week 3:Business and their natural, social and econ operating environment
Week 4: Climate Change and business A two- way street
Week 5: Responding to climate change
Week 6: Sustainability, sustainable production and resilience
Week 7:Climate change responses- regional responses
Week 10: Sustainability reporting
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Assessment item 2 Analytical case study
Marking Rubric(Presentation)
| Criteria | Marks and comments |
| Introduces the company and its current policies / strategies in relation to climate change and sustainability (if any) (5 marks)
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| Critically evaluates these policies and strategies with reference to the literature through a SWOT analysis (5)
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| Suggests how these policies / strategies could be improved; and Reflects on if & how these developments could be used to further sustainable business futures for the sector the business operates in (5)
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| Meets presentation requirements – word limit, follows Faculty Good Essay Guide (e.g., use of headings, grammar, punctuation, references) (5)
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| Final score – out of 20% |
