SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT BUSINESS VOCABULARY IN USE (ADVANCED)

 

BUSINESS VOCABULARY IN USE (ADVANCED) 50. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

 

A Climate change Scientists point to the dangers of climate change, in particular global warming. This is the rise in temperatures in the atmosphere and the sea caused by emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from the burning of hydrocarbon or fossil fuels such as oil and coal. Some say that the earth cannot sustain much further industrialization. B Sustainability Sustainability is the idea that the economy should be organized in ways that can be continued without causing irreversible damage to the environment or depletion of natural resources. Businesses should be run not for short-term profit, but in a way that takes account of the long-term interests of society and the environment. C The triple bottom line EXERCISES 50.1 Complete the article, which contains words from A and B opposite, with a-e below. Energy’s future is trapped in the fossil fuel past In his State of the Union address, President George W. Bush proposed a $1.5bn (£900m) government research and development programme to replace the internal combustion engine with hydrogen-powered fuel cell cars. (1) _____________ The White House’s enthusiasm for hydrogen suddenly becomes understandable. (3) _____________   a. By using some of the electricity generated by renewables to electrolyse water and extract hydrogen, society obtains stored energy to use at a future date. b. Hydrogen is the lightest, most plentiful element in the universe. When it is used to generate power, heat and light, the only by-products are water and heat. But what Mr Bush did not mention was that hydrogen has to be extracted from either fossil fuels or water. 50.2 Look at the following key words from the article and find words which can go before or after them to form ‘word combinations’. Two of them have been done for you as examples.

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