analyse the environmental impacts and sustainability issues/challenges of

Your assignment should consist of
• An introduction to your company (apple), its key stakeholders, its sector and (where relevant) its competitors
• An identification of the key environmental impacts for which your company is responsible and an analysis of the key sustainability issues or challenges facing the company and the sector/industry it is part of
• The use of appropriate concepts, frameworks and theories to support your analysis – at a minimum you should show an understanding of the Nine Planetary Boundaries Framework, the Zadek Issues Maturity Framework and systems thinking perspectives.
• Brief Conclusions summarising your findings.

Your work will be judged on its overall coherence and hence only one overall mark will be given.
This assignment is only about the company’s environmental impacts and the sustainability issues/challenges they face; it is not about their response to these impacts. Any part of your assignment that focuses on what they have done to control or reduce their impacts will not gain you any credit.

Format Requirements
• This assignment should be saved as a word document not a pdf.
• Present your report in this order: Title Page, Introduction, Impacts and Sustainability issues, Brief Conclusions, Reference List
• Maximum wordcount of 1000 words. There is no 10% allowance.
• Title page and reference list are excluded from the word limit. Tables, models and diagrams count towards the word limit.
• Title page should include: Student Number (not name); Company Name; URL link to the company environmental report you are reviewing; Wordcount.
• Lines should be double-spaced and please use Arial 11 Font.
• All pages must be numbered
• Margins must be as follows: Top: 1 inch, Bottom: 1 inch (2.5 cm), Left: 1.25 inches, Right: 1.25 inches (3.2 cm)

Assessment Criteria
The marking criteria are:
• Content and range (including evidence of research and coverage of all questions)
• Reflection/Evaluation
• Knowledge of theory
• Critical reasoning
• Presentation including referencing
All assignments must have proper referencing in the text to relevant sources that are then listed in a reference list that meets Cite Them Right standards (see link to CTR on Moodle). You must reference the Environmental Report that you choose whenever you use information from it.