Lesson 3 - Environmental Sustainability SAQ
This lesson enables you to test yourself on the material covered in the lesson on Environmental Sustainability and to determine the level to which you have met the learning outcomes.
Self-Assessment Questions
1. * What are the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals?
2. * You have been asked to develop an energy management system for your brewery. Listed below are the key steps you must consider. Write a brief description of each step and give an example of how the energy management system you are creating would incorporate them.
a) Boundary
b) Baseline
c) Metering
d) KPIs
e) Benchmarking
f) Goals and targets
g) Improvement projects
3. ** Mitigation is a key response to climate change. Describe the opportunities for brewers to contribute to climate change mitigation.
4. ** You have been asked to design a water strategy for your brewery. After some initial research, you have found that your brewery is located in an area with increasing water scarcity. How could your brewery respond to this through its water strategy?
5. *** Utilising the concepts of the ‘circular economy’ how could you design a more sustainable beer value chain?