Date 18-033-2024 Maximum Marks 50

Course Code CV232AT Duration 90 Min

Sem III CIE – III (Test)
Environment and Sustainability

Sl. Questions M BT CO
No.
1. a Enumerate the impacts of ozone layer depletion. 5 3 3
b Explain the concept of 5R. 5 2 3
2. Define the following. 10 2 3
i) EIA ii) Climate change iii) Carbon Credit iv) CarbonFootprint v) Green
Building
3. Explain the principles of CSR. 10 2 4
4. Enumerate the ways to reduce carbon foot print. 10 3 3
5. a Briefly explain the concept of circular economy. 5 2 3
b Explain the concept of charity and corporate philanthropy. 5 2 4

Course outcomes:
BT-Blooms
Blooms Taxonomy, CO-Course
CO Outcomes, M-Marks

Particulars CO1 CO2 CO3 CO4 L1 L2 L3 L4 L5 L6

Marks
Distribution Test Max - - 35 15 - 35 15 - - -
Marks

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 Date 18-03--2024 Maximum Marks 50
Course Code CV232AT Duration 90 Min
Sem III CIE – III (Scheme
Scheme & Solution)
Solution
Environment and Sustainability

Sl. No. Questions M B C

T O
1. a Enumerate the impacts of ozone layer depletion. 5 3 3

1. Effects on human health

UV rays damage genetic material in skin causing skin cancer.
Prolonged exposure to UV rays may cause blindness.
Human resistivity is reduced resulting in allergies and infections.
2. Effects on aquatic system
Kills lower fauna and flora
Affects photosynthesis process cause mutation.
3. Effect on materials
Degradation of point quality and plastics.
4. Effects on climate
Climate change.
Global warming.
b Explain the concept of 5R. 5 2 3

According to the 5 R's, four actions should be taken, if possible, prior to 'recycling':
refuse,reduce, reuse, repurpose and then recycle.Incorporating this methodology into your
business' waste reduction and recycling efforts will minimize landfill waste and help take
your recycling program to the next level.

1. Refuse : Do not buy anything which we do not really need.

2. Reduce : Reduce the amount of garbage generated. Alter our lifestyle so that minimum
garbage is generated.
3. Reuse : Reuse everything to its maximum after properly cleaning it. Make secondary use
of different articles.
4. Repurpose : For every item that can't be refused, reduced or reused, try repurposing it.
Many people in the green community refer to this method as upcycling. You may be b
surprised to learn how many common office products serve more than one purpose.
5. Recycle : Keep things which can be recycled to be given to rag pickers or waste pickers
(Kabadiwallahs). Convert the recyclable garbage into manures or other useful products.
produc
2. Define the following. 1 2 3
i) EIA: Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is the process of -assessing
assessing 0
the likely environmental impacts of a proposal and identifying options to
minimize environmental damage.

ii) Climate change: Climate change is the significant variation of average

weather conditions becoming, for example, warmer, wetter, or drier—over
drier
several decades or longer. It is the longer-term
longer term trend that differentiates climate
change from natural weather variability.

iii) Carbon Credit:Carbon

Carbon credits are measurable, verifiable emission
reductions from certified climate action projects. These projects reduce, avoid
or remove greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

iv) Carbon Footprint:"The

"The carbon footprint is a measure of the exclusive total
 amount of carbon dioxide emissions that is directly and indirectly caused by
an activity or is accumulated over the life stages of a product".
product"

v) Green Building: A green or sustainable building is a building that, because

of its construction and features, can maintain or improve the quality of life of
the environment in which it is located.
3. Explain the principles of CSR. 1 2 4
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4. 2 Enumerate the ways to reduce carbon foot print. 1 3 3
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1. Alternatives to driving - When possible walk or ride your bike in order to
avoid carbon emissions completely. Carpooling and public transportation
drastically reduce CO2 emissions by spreading them out over many riders.
2. Drive a low carbon vehicle - High mileage doesn’t always mean low
CO2 emissions.
issions. All vehicles have an estimated miles miles-per-gallon
gallon rating.
Electric cars emit no CO2 if they’re charged with clean electricity.
3. Driving style - Speeding and unnecessary acceleration reduce mileage by
up to 33 %, waste gas and money and increase your
yo carbon footprint.
4. Tyre inflation and other tuning - Properly inflated tires improve your gas
mileage by up to 3 %. It also helps to use the correct grade of motor oil and to
keep your engine tuned, because some maintenance fixes, like fixing faulty
oxygen
xygen sensors, can increase fuel efficiency by up to 40 %.
5. Avoid traffic - Being stuck in traffic wastes fuel and unnecessarily creates
CO2. Use traffic websites and apps and go a different way or wait.
6. Excess weight - Remove excess weight from your car. Use cruise control.
7. Reduce your carbon footprint from air travel - Until petroleum-based based
aviation fuel is replaced, you should avoid flying when possible, fly less
frequently, fly shorter distances and fly economy class.
Avoid air travel, instead increase
i your use of video-conferencing
conferencing tools like
Skype.
Economy class is best, for the same reasons as carpooling and public
transportation. Each flyer’s share of a flight’s carbon emissions is relatively
 less because it’s spread out over more people.
8. Don’t fly on private jets - Fly first or business class if you must, because
at least those seats always fill up anyway and avoid private jets.
9. Insulate and seal your home - Reduce drafts and air leaks with caulk,
insulation and weather stripping.
10. Appliances - Make energy efficiency a primary consideration when
choosing a new furnace, air conditioning unit, dishwasher or refrigerator.
Products bearing the ENERGY STAR label are recognized for having
superior efficiency.
11. Lighting - Turn off lights you’re not using and when you leave the room.
Replace incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent or LED ones.
12. Thermostat - Don’t set it too high or low. Install a programmable model
to turn off the heat/air conditioning when you’re not home.
13. Solar - Add solar panels to the roof of your home. This costs a little more
than the above options, but many providers offer financing options which
minimize upfront costs.
14. Reduce your food carbon footprint from food - Eat locally-produced produced
and organic food. Buy local food that is naturally growing in season. Do you
really need to eat strawberries flown in from the other side of the planet ? You
want to eat fresh food, so what better that stuff growing locally.
It has been estimated that 30 % of greenhouse
greenhouse gas emissions result from the
production and transport of food. Transporting food requires petroleum
petroleum-based
fuels and many fertilizers are also fossil fuel
fuel-based.
15. Deforestation - Deforestation is a top contributor to carbon emissions and
thus climate change.
16. Avoid partying - This is for both food sustainability and economic
inequality.
17. Water usage - Lower the amount of energy used to pump, treat and heat
water by washing your car less often, using climate-appropriate
climate appropriate plants in your
garden, installing
stalling drip irrigation so that plants receive only what they need
and making water-efficient
efficient choices when purchasing shower heads, faucet
heads, toilets, dishwashers and washing machines.
Stop daydreaming in the shower and hurry up as lots of hot water iiss being
wasted.
18. Avoid buying bottled water - Apart from being ridiculously expensive
(it’s just water!) it may have travelled half way round the planet to get to you.
Surely tap water in your own reusable container will do.
19. Reuse and recycle - It has been estimated that 40 % of greenhouse gas
emissions result from the “provision of goods,” which means the extraction of
resources, manufacturing, transport and final disposal of “goods” which
include consumer products and packaging, building component componentss and
passenger vehicles, but excluding food. By buying used products and reselling
or recycling items you no longer use, you dramatically reduce your carbon
footprint from the “provision of goods.”
20. Support clean energy sources - Whenever you can, advocate cate for clean
alternatives to fossil fuels, such as wind, solar, geothermal and appropriately
designed hydroelectric and biomass energy projects.
21. Use fountain pen rather disposable plastic pens.
22. Do not put your supermarket vegetables into separate little plastic bags -
it’s just a waste of bags. Use your own reusable bag to cart the entire goodies
home.
23. Print on both sides of the paper and use recycled inks.
24. Use cleaning products that are not derived from oil - so look for vegetable
based ones.
25. Wash your clothes at low temperatures, the detergents still work and the
clothes don’t mind.
5. a Briefly explain the concept of circular economy. 5 2 3

• The circular economy is a systems solution framework that tackles

global challenges like climate change, biodiversity loss, waste and
 pollution.
• In circular economy, products are designed for durability, reuse and
recyclability and materials for new products come from old products.
• Circular economy is a new production and consumption model that
ensures sustainable growth over time. With the circular economy, we can
drive the optimization of resources, reduce the consumption of raw
materials and recover waste by recycling or giving it a second life as a
new product.
• The circular economy is important as it promotes sustainable
development. It advocates using waste as an input for producing new
finished goods.
• The circular economy supports creating reserves of raw materials and
adopting innovative methods to eliminate any steps that reduce the cost
and time to make new finished goods.

b Explain the concept of charity and corporate philanthropy. 5 2 4

While some use the words charity and philanthropy interchangeably,

philanthropy often casts a broader net of giving. Its role is to help society
or groups in the community flourish over a long
long-term
term period. Charity is
usually based on individual giving and helping in a short-term
short term way, like
donating coats to the homeless in winter, helping out or contributing
goods to a local food pantry, or sending money to a scholarship fund.
These are all acts of charity but may not be considered philanthropic
efforts like building a school or a library or donating millions to a
scholarship fund.
Corporate philanthropy is the act of giving to charitable causes and/or
organizations by corporations. The most common way of giving through
a corporation is by donating money but there are other ways to do so.
Some of them include volunteering (like when employees donate their
time to charities), scholarships, community
community investments, and
sponsorships.

Course outcomes:
BT-Blooms
Blooms Taxonomy, CO-Course
CO Outcomes, M-Marks

Particulars CO1 CO2 CO3 CO4 L1 L2 L3 L4 L5 L6

Marks
Distribution Test Max - - 35 15 - 35 15 - - -
Marks
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