Environmental forces are continually changing especially regards to the natural environment and it impact on businesses and their strategies. Businesses continually are faced with responding to changes that they face and as such need to continually scan the broader business environment to identify potential opportunities, but also minimise the risk of potential threats.

Thus assignment $1$ asks you to identify a news item discussing some environmental related issue and explain how it impacts on a business$$ activities, as well as discuss how that business $($or a government$)$ might respond to address the issue.

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For this task assume that you are explaining these ideas to peers and colleagues, demonstrating the connections between the environment and how this impacts business and how we can address these environmental changes.

In assignment $1$ you must prepare a recorded video presentation that explains a current $($last $3$ months$)$ environmental news story liked to business. The presentation should be a power point presentation with voice recording, that covers the three main points:

Explain the environmental issue.

Explain how this event will impact on a specific firm or industry.

Explain how the firm, industry or governmental policy will have to adapt to address this environmental issue.