HOMEWORK UNIT 4: CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT ON INDUSTRIES
PROJECT
EXERCISE 1: SUMMARY 7 READING
Introduction Explantion of Real – world Solutions Conclusion
Climate Examples
change
impacts
Agriculture The essence of + Causing India + Rainwwater Significant
Agriculture more frequent + 2016: Drought Harvesting challenges:
+ The extreme events => 330 million + Practising no threatening food
cultivation of such as floods people + Lost – tillage security,
plants for food, and droughts $100 billion. farming: reduce livelihoods, and
fiber, fuel, and + Expansion in + Spring 2023: soil erosion rural economies
other products the range of severe water + Stay updated worldwide.
+ The raising of pests and shortages => cut with weather
domesticated pathogens water supplies forecast
animals for + Affect how Vietnam + Adopting
meat, milk, crops grow + 2020, The organic
eggs, and other and become Mekong Delta: farrming
products. ready to The driest year
The historical harvest, => salt water
perspective: making them reached 90 kms
+ Began around easily affected => Hurt the rice
13,000 years by different crops + Lost
ago kinds of harvest
+ Early problems like
agricultural bugs and bad
practices soil.
involved
planting seeds,
managing
water, and
domesticating
animals
Tourism climate change Direct: Venice, Italy: + Develop plans Two - sided
and tourism + create water Saint Mark’s to respond to
have a very shortages Square: Early climate change
clear + a loss of Flood: nearly 4 in details
relationship and biodiversity feet underwater + Improve
depend on each + impacts to by the end of the awareness,
other. landscape century knowledge and
aesthetics Hoi An Ancient skills to
+ damage to Town, VN: sea recognize, adapt
infrastructure levels could rise and respond to
Indirect by up to 1 meter climate change
+ Impacts of by 2100 => + the planning
mitigation submerge houses, and design of
policies on roads, historical works and areas
tourist mobility sites, and disrupt serving tourism
+ Economic the lives of local activities need to
growth may be residents. be carried out
stunted in some scientifically:
areas and ensure they can
increase in withstand the
others, creating impacts of
societal varying degrees
inequality of climate
between change, Long-
nations term strategies
+ implement
solutions to limit
climate change:
Effective and
long – term
Energy List: oil and + Shifting + Norway: + Shifting + Change
gas; electric energy reliance on energy demand: energy demand,
power; nuclear demand: hydropower for using energy- requiring
power; coal; - World: its electricity efficient cleaner
renewable + increased needs appliances, alternatives and
The Business electricity + Netherlands: improving diversification
work: Refining; demand for The Struggle of building + Collaborative
Extracting; cooling during Dutch Dairy insulation, and efforts
Processing => summer Farmers using efficient
Obtaining => + decrease lighting systems.
Distruting + demand for + Hydropower
Selling heating fuels in dependence:
winter - OPTIMIZING
=> Stress for HYDROPOWE
cooling R USAGE:
requirements enhancing water
- VN: 1°C storage + release
increase raise mechanisms in
5% in existing dams =>
residential ecological
electricity balance +
consumption consistent energy
Hydropower generation
dependence -
(VN): DIVERSIFYIN
changing G THE
rainfall ENERGY MIX:
patterns and Investrment in
rising renewable =>
temperatures Balanced +
→ droughts → dependable
reduce water energy source
levels in
reservoirs →
impacting
electricity
production
capacity
Transportation + A broad + Impact on + 2021: Flooding Adaptation: Adaptation
sector of the Safety and from Hurricane Weather forecast
economy that Functioning of Ida => causing by using
includes all the many subway technology + AI
companies Transportatio lines and + invest in
involved in the n System: highways to recovery
movement of damage roads, close; Loss from activities
people and bridges, 15 – 25 billion
goods railways, USD
ports, and + 2022: Drought
coastal => The
airports => Mississippi River
trouble getting water level in the
to their homes, United States
schools, stores, drops to a record
and medical low (below 40
appointments cms)
+ System + 2023: Drought
Costs and the in the Mekong
Economy: Delta region,
Two – sided Vietnam =>
- Cost: significant land
decreased in subsidence =>
- milder increased
winters/Increa transportation
sed in other costs using
areas motorcycles =>
+ Supplied rice’s prices:
chain: Long in decreased 300 –
warmer 700 VND per kg
weather => Exceeding
VND 9 Billion for
the drought-
induced land
subsidence
Forestry + 42% of Increased + VN’s Mekong + Promote + Close
Vietnam's land temperatures: Delta: rising afforestation relationship
is forested (in lead to temperature => and between
2021) increased increasing reforestation forestry and
+ Rich history evaporation, evaporation, and programs: it can climate
of forestry reduced soil reducing soil significantly + People
practices moisture moisture => increase forest contribute to
+ Thriving + Sea-level rise challenges in cover and both sides
timber and coastal irrigation enhance carbon + Be aware of
processing erosion: management, absorption the positive and
industry damage or higher costs, + Early warning negative
+ Integral to destroy competition for systems for impacts
local mangrove water resources forest fires: this + Strictly
communities' forests and and affects crop solution enables comply with
livelihoods other coastal quality. faster response government
vegetation + VN’s Rising and minimizes policies
+ Increased sea level => damage. + Spread and
forest fires: erosion and + Implement create a
increase the saltwater sustainable community with
likelihood of intrusion (Can forest a common sense
fire ignition Gio District near management of prioritizing
and spread, Ho Chi Minh practices: to climate stability,
destroy habitats City) => harms address and sustainable
and release biodiversity but reduce the development of
large amounts also reduces the impact of human forestry
of carbon ability of forests activities on
dioxide to protect coastal forests, such as
communities from unsustainable
storms and floods logging and
+ 2019, Forest deforestation,
fire in Central
VN => damaged
habitats,
threatened
wildlife, and
endangered
public health
Construction + Compound + For the + In Rach Gia + Climate- Significantly
and Annual Growth materials used city, Kien Giang resilient design: influenced =>
Infracstructure Rate (CAGR) in province: rising Build seawalls, can be
exceeding 4% construction: sea levels => levees, and raise mitigated by
+ In Vietnam, Rising global destroying the structures in implementing
roads, airports, temperatures drainage system flood-prone climate-
and seaports => Thermal structure, making areas. Use heat- resilient design,
are a priority Cracking of regular resistant investing in
Concrete maintenance and materials and infrastructure,
+ For existing repairs necessary improve especially
infrastructure: and a huge drainage protecting our
increased amount of costs systems for environment
maintenance incurred. extreme
and repair + Typhoon Talim weather even
costs (Storm No. 1): + Infrastructure
+ For new thunderstorms, investment:
construction, tornadoes and The
it means that strong winds at Netherlands is
designs must sea => causing 2 developing
take into fishing boats to smart highways
account these sink, and more that use sensors
changing than 100 houses and connected
conditions, to collapse and car technology
potentially lose their roofs to improve
leading to + heavy rain and traffic flow,
increased costs strong reduce
and more thunderstorms congestion, and
complex design blew away enhance safety.
requirements. corrugated iron + Nature-based
roofs and house solutions:
frames into the Protect and
110kV restore natural
transformer ecosystems like
station located in mangroves and
Bien Hoa 2 coastal wetlands
Industrial Park
(Dong Nai
province),
causing more
than 100
businesses to lose
power.
Healthcare + Provide: + Heart – + Heart – related Mitigation + Risk to
medical related illness illness: UK; level strategy: patient’s health
services, 4 heat – health - Focused on the care
manufactures + Wildfires and alert mitigation of + More
medical Air pollution direct emissions attention and
equipment or + Wildfires and and energy action
drugs or medical + Mental health Air pollution: consumption to
insurance Impacts California, the reduce footprint
Woolsey Fire - Introducing
+ The world's + Food waste
largest and insecurity + VN: management
fastest-growing temperature 0.2°C programs, and
increased/decade exploring new
=> dengue fever hybrid models
or malaria Adaptation
strategies
Transformation
strategies:
Deploy the
innovative
technologies and
healthcare
models
EXERCISE 2: IN – CLASS EXTRA READING
A. Complete the world
1. Pose a threat
2. Extreme weather
3. High temperatures
4. Climate change
5. Humid atmosphere
6. Growing demand
7. Unstable environment
8. Face difficulties
B. Complete the excerpt
1. Extreme weather
2. Pose a threat
3. High Temperatures
4. Humid atmosphere
5. Face Difficulties
6. Unstable environment
C. Complete the sentences
1. Production
2. Predict
3. Embrace
4. Protect
5. Sustainable
6. Potential
D. Reading
I. Put the recycling stages in order: cardboard (1–4) and plastic bottles
(1–8). Then read the first three paragraphs of the text to see if you were
correct.
1. Recycling cardboard
a) Stage 4 Sold to a manufacturer for their own use to make
new paper products. (The material will be sold on for
further processing until it eventually reaches the end
customer: a manufacturer that needs the material to use
in its products.)
b) Stage 1 Taken to a mill (= a factory where one material or
substance is made). (Cardboard goes to a special mill,
where it is cleaned and then broken down to paper pulp.
This will be sold and used to make new paper products.)
c) Stage 3 Broken down into pulp (= a thick, soft, wet
substance made by crushing something).
d) Stage 2 Cleaned. (Other materials also have a value –
aluminium cans for example – and they go to plants for
another round of sorting and cleaning)
2. Recycling Plastic bottle
a) Stage 2 Separated according to type of plastic.
b) Stage 1 Taken to a recycling plant (= a large factory
where an industrial process happens).
c) Stage 4 Put into chemicals to get the labels off.
d) Stage 3 Washed and cleaned.
e) Stage 6 Put into a pool to separate the bits of bottle plastic
from the bits of lid plastic.
f) Stage 7 Melted with the same type of plastic to form
pellets (= small, round, hard pieces).
g) Stage 5 Chopped into tiny bits.
h) Stage 8 Sold to a manufacturer for their own use to make
new products.
II. Read the remaining part of the text and decide if these statements are
true (T) or false (F).
3. Recycling plastic always uses more energy than making plastic
for the first time. F
4. There is more plastic on the planet than steel and cement. F
5. Most plastic is collected and recycled. F
6. Ellen MacArthur thinks that most resources have a one - way
journey from being created to being thrown away. T
7. Ellen MacArthur thinks that there is no point using different
materials in packaging because no packaging can be easily
recycled. F
8. In the ‘zero waste’ movement people grow their own food
whenever possible, like in the old days. F
III. Choose the option (a or b) which has the same meaning as the
words/phrases (1–6)
1. To melt –
2.
IV. Match the verbs (1–8) with the phrases (a–h).
3.
EXERCISE 3: WRITING LESSON 4.5
Subject: Proposal to improve the company’s green footprint
Recommendation
Taking all the factors mentioned into account, there are a number of ways that we
can improve our green footprint, because it is clear that there is a lot of waste in the
company.
I would like to recommend that the first thing the company should do is carry out a
waste review of the whole organization to raise employee awareness of what types of
garbage are recyclable. It would be advisable to ensure we only use reusable pens
and and recycled paper in the company. In addition, we should recycle old
computers other devices, so we also need to look for a local business that does this.
Furthermore, I recommend that we review our purchasing policies to make sure
that all the products we buy are manufactured sustainably and do not contain any
toxic subtances. We should also donate unwanted office furniture to charities or
refurbish it so we can still use it.
Another area to consider is our energy supply. In my opinion, it would be advisable
to use other renewable energy supplies suach as wind or solar power.
In conclusion, we would recommend that we encourage our staffs to consider the
environment at all times starting from their use of paper, water, plastic and energy.
The most officient option would be to replace using plastic cups in drinks machines
with bring our own mugs and water bottles to work. It would be a good idea for
staff to leave their cars at home and use public transport.