Indpeth Sustainability Week Quiz!

What department are you answering this for? (Talk and discuss answers, but only submit one quiz!)

What is Sustainability?

Making sure the carbon emissions of the planet reach zero as fast as possible.

Fulfilling the needs of current generations without compromising the needs of future generations.

Reducing the amount of one-use plastics and upscaling recycling, as well as reducing carbon emissions.

Making sacrifices today to try to lower our carbon emissions, it'll be worth it in the future.

Why do greenhouse gasses, like CO2, cause global warming?

They are hot, so the more greenhouse gas there is, the hotter the planet is.

They make the sun hotter, making the atmosphere hotter in turn.

They trap heat in the atmosphere.

They naturally come from volcanos, and volcanos are hot.

Global climate agreements are all trying to keep the temperature below what °C?

1°C

1.5°C

2°C

2.5°C

Emissions are broken down into categories: Scope 1, 2, and 3. Scope 1 is currently Indepth's biggest source of measured emissions at 80.3%. What is it?

Indepth's Suppliers

Indepth Vehicles

Indepth Energy Use

What's the best thing you can do to make the biggest difference as we try to stop climate change?

Lobby your workplace to be more green

Reduce the amount of meat you eat

Get an electric car and use public transport more

Recycle more

Vote for people with green policies

What % of energy is saved by turning your monitor's brightness from 100 to 70?

70%

45%

20%

The average carbon footprint for one person in the UK is 9.3 tonnes of CO2 per year. What is Indepth's carbon footprint per year?

436.2 tonnes

223.8 tonnes

167.7 tonnes

92.0 tonnes

Who does Indepth have a sustainability certification with that verifies and measures carbon and social data?

EcoVardis

Planet Mark

ISO 14005

Net Zero

Business travel on trains, planes, and taxis is used constantly to travel to sites and visit clients. All of it counts towards our emissions, but under which scope?

Scope 1

Scope 2

Scope 3

None, it doesn't count

What does Net Zero mean?

Balancing the carbon dioxide you release into the atmosphere with the amount they absorb or remove from the atmosphere

Reducing your emissions as much as you can without going out of your way (just hope for the best)

Cutting greenhouse gas emissions to as close to zero as possible, with any remaining emissions re-absorbed from the atmosphere, by oceans and forests

Recycling everything you possible can so there is zero waste

When looking at all the direct emissions ever emitted, how high does the UK rank as the worst carbon polluter?

The highest

5th highest

10th highest

2nd to last

Tiebreaker: What number of people in your department have kept their screens on a brightness of 70?

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