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Provide answers to all of the questions below:
1. Outline the Kyoto Protocol and Australia's obligations under the Protocol, as well as its current targets and the adequacy of these targets.
2. Outline the purpose and scope of the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate.
3. Outline the purpose and scope of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act).
4. Outline the purpose and scope of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act Regulations.
5. Outline the purpose and scope of the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Scheme.
6. Outline the purpose and scope of the Australian Packaging Covenant voluntary code of practice.
7. Outline the purpose and scope of the Australian Ecolabel Program voluntary code of practice.
8. Identify one internal information source and one external information source that can be used to plan and develop a company's sustainability policy. For each source, explain how this source can be used to develop the sustainability policy.
9. Explain the key steps in a policy development process.
10. Explain the main components of a policy document.
11. Outline policy development practices that may be used in response to resistance to the introduction of policies.
12. Outline why a company may choose to implement an environmental management system (EMS). List at least three reasons why a company may implement am EMS.
13. Outline at least three key components of an EMS.
14. Outline how a business can use environmental sustainability indicators and two examples of indicators that can be used.
15. Outline how a business can use life cycle management procedures to assist with implementing sustainability practices.
16. Outline at least two barriers to introducing policies and procedures, and strategies that can be used to address each of the barriers you identify.