1 Discuss the following: Within the supply chain, both organisational managers and end-users are interested in knowing how much water was used to produce a particular product. Likewise, investors and other external stakeholders can require organisations to disclose more information on their water policies and practices as well as actual numbers. Question 2 1. Discuss how accounting and accountability can be positive force in the transition towards sustainability. 2. What is the role of current systems, structures, regulations and voluntary responses from organisations to enable this transition? Question 3 1. Why are the past and current efforts in the accounting profession insufficient to enable transition towards sustainability? 2. What are the challenges hindering this transition? Question 4 What are the effects of ecological collapse including the breaching of planetary boundaries on organisations? What is the role of organisations in elevating this collapse? Can accounting help in hindering this collapse and if so how? What is the role of regulation and sustainability reports in reducing the effects of this collapse? Question 4 Discuss the following: There is vast momentum in different areas of society, ranging from urban infrastructure to financial markets, as sustainability appears to have become a core agenda item in many spheres. Still, having sustainability on the agenda or having various targets does not suffice in itself. There are declarations of a climate emergency, but without the actions resembling an emergency response, as emphasised repeatedly by Greta Thunberg and the School Strike for Climate movement. Question 5 There is every reason to strive to achieve the targets included in the SDGs, such as reducing poverty, ensuring education and revitalising ecosystems. Still, the SDGs are neither perfect nor without contradictions. Can we simultaneously achieve sustained economic growth and live in harmony with nature, both of which are called for by the SDGs? Question 6 What is the role of civil society and social groups in the sustainability transition? Discuss the relevance of innovative external accounts in this transition. How can external accounts work to challenge laggards and push leading organisations further in all sectors (e.g. private, public, third sector) towards becoming legitimately sustainable. Question 7 What systems of incentives structures - including markets, rules, norms and scientific information - can most effectively improve social capacity to guide interactions between nature and society towards more sustainable trajectories? Question 8 Accounting, accountants and accountancy need to step forward and rise to the sustainability challenge, and show what it means for accountancy to serve the public interest human rights. Discuss. Question 9 What is the role of increasing regularity requirements and stringent accountability measures in relation to the following? Biodiversity and carbon emissions Humans rights Economic inequality Climate change