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Based on the Business Case presented on page 2 above, prepare a 500 – 750 word report. Organise your report by including the headings provided in the marking criteria on page 6. Your report needs to address the following: (a) Give a brief description of the Nossal Institute for Global Health (Nossal). (b) Outline how climate change is likely to affect Nossal’s business operations in developing countries. (c) Evaluate the social issues likely to impact on a business operating in a developing country. (d) Suggest ways that accountants can play in addressing climate change in a business environment. 2. Reference List: Includes any references you have used and cited in your report. You must use the Harvard referencing system as per the guide available from the UWS library website. (Note: the reference list is not included in the word count).
	
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The following is a business case that you are required to analyse as per the ‘Required’ section 
on page 3, by answering the four parts (a, b, c and d) of requirement 1 and compiling a 
Reference List as per requirement 2. 
 
The business case: 
 
After being trained by former US vice-president Al Gore, Mike Sewell FCPA is convinced that 
the weight of scientific evidence behind climate change and the global effects we’re seeing 
today should be enough to push businesses and individuals to take action. 
 
Sewell was general manager and company secretary for the Nossal Institute for Global Health 
(Nossal), which is actively involved in research, education and inclusive development health 
practices in developing countries.  In July 2011 he underwent an intensive climate change 
course, along with a group of other volunteers under the Australian Conservation Foundation’s 
Climate Project.  The training was led by Nobel Prize winner Al Gore, whose Oscar award 
winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth helped bring mass international attention to 
climate change. 
 
His...

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Nossal Institute for Global Health 
Nossal institute for global health was established in year 2006 with its aim to advocate for the public 
health of vulnerable communities. The institute is named in honor of a great Australian research 
biologist “Sir Gustav Victor Nossal”. Vision of the institute is to achieve better future through 
advances in global health and to achieve its goal institute has entered into partnership with various 
research and education institutes.  (Nossal institute for Global health) 
Institute is working to achieve the Millennium Development Goals which includes boosting progress 
on education targets, Investing in sanitation etc. and to achieve its goals institute follows following 4 
principles (Nossal institute for Global health):- 
a) Health Equity 
b) Knowledge 
c) Sustainability 
d) Partnerships 
Although the institute works on the overall development of health of the people but it has divided its 
work into 5 specific units which are as follows (Millennium Goals):- 
1) Non-communicable diseases 
2) Health systems strengthening 
3) Education and learning 
4) Communicable diseases 
5) Inclusive development practice. 
Change in climate defeating the purpose of Institute 
As the organization is involved in advocating the global health and environment any climatic change 
will affects its scope of working.

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