Business ethics and green issues – Practice 2

 

Fill in the gaps with the appropriate word or phrase in the correct form.
  1. There are a growing number of leaders who believe that the path of  development makes sense for the future of the environment and society and presents exciting new opportunities for their businesses.
  2. The company was accused of giving  to local officials in order to allow their products into the country more quickly.
  3. Fishermen are being encouraged to catch alternative fish species because  has decreased the stocks to near-collapse.
  4. The so-called  walls protect the individual zones of confidentiality, and reduce the free flow of information in the company to an absolute minimum.
  5. Many countries consider that the best way to dispose  nuclear waste in the long term is to bury it deep underground.
  6. Illegal  could accelerate degradation or even cause deforestation, which has affected more than 9.8 million acres of forest in the past 30 years.
  7. They fired him because he was a .He informed the press that the company was using under-age workers in the factory.
  8. The country has quite a good record on environmental issues, but still must encourage a dramatic change from  fuels to renewable energy.
  9. The levels of primary  gases such as CO2 are up dramatically since the Industrial Revolution.
  10. The  of natural resources, such as oil and freshwater combined with other forms of environmental destruction can have serious human consequences, such as people having to evacuate their homes without the means to support themselves.