Global Warming and Business Impact

This assignment explores the consequences of global warming on business operations. It examines the roles of governments and businesses in mitigating climate change through policies, regulations, and technological advancements. The text emphasizes the importance of collaborative efforts to protect the environment while promoting sustainable business practices.

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Introduction.
Over the years, weather and climate have changed due to many factors. These factors are mainly
associated to human activities. Human beings have become innovative in nature which has
contributed to some notable changes in the climate. One of the climate change that has been
discussed and documented is global warming. Many parts of the world that experience global
warming have recorded losses and other adverse effects brought by this dangerous occurrence.
The irony of it all is that, human beings have caused it and the negative impacts of global
warming have bounced back to them. For the purpose of this paper, global warming has been
interpreted to mean climate change. However, for clarity it is defined as the general and typical
increase in the average temperature scale of the world’s climate system and the impacts
associated to it. Geographers and geologists have conducted scientific research that provide
concrete evidence that the world’s climate system is warming up (Lambsdorff 2012). This rate of
warming is directly proportional to human activities. This paper aim at critically analyzing the
drawbacks caused by global warming and the intervention of the business world and government
on the same.
Problems posed by global warming.
The world environmental organization has being in the forefront to educate people on the causes
and difficult drawbacks posed by global warming. Human beings have not once but times
without numbers ignored this important warning. Therefore they have continued conducting
human activities that indicate a perfect positive correlation to the increasing rate of global
warming (Incropera 2015). A lot of bottlenecks have therefore emerged. The predominant cause
of global warming is human inference. These negative impacts have adversely affected the entire
business fraternity.
To start with, global warming leads to release or emission of toxic gases. Actually. These are the
commonly known greenhouse gases such as Sulphur IV oxide, methane, carbon IV oxide and
very toxic nitrous oxide. These gases have adverse effects on human and animal species. Once
these gases dissolves in the humidity in the atmosphere, they cause acid rain (Houghton 2015).

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This results to rusting of roofs. Businesses are also affected by greenhouse gases since some
customers and products are sensitive to toxic gases. Secondly, it causes the general warming of
global temperature, changing of precipitation and making the sea level to rise (Plimer 2009).
This pose a serious problem to business world and many investors are exposed to risk of
uncertainty in business venture. Increase in global temperature may result to expansion of deserts
thus affecting agricultural business people. Again, global warming increase the heat wave,
drought and heavy snowfall. This lower the world food security. This simply means inability to
save. Without saving, business activities cannot be carried out successfully. Heavy snowfalls
reduces movement of people from their homes to workplace. This in return lowers the cash
inflows in the business.
In addition, acidification of oceans is yet another problem posed by global warming. This affect
the aquatic and maritime activities such as fishing. All those business people who relies on
oceans to generate income are adversely affected. Companies processing fish products collapse
and a lot of people lose their jobs. Another drawback is reduction and threat to security of food
caused by poor yields in agriculture (Ball 2016). This aspect has affected the majority of people
in third world counties and developing countries who depend mainly on agriculture to support
their economy. Low crop yield is associated to the prolonged drought and at times floods that
destroy a lot of quality food products. Due to global warming, it becomes difficult to predict
weather at a given point in time. Flooding leads to destruction of roads. This hinders transport
system. Business people are therefore unable to access markets and customers and consumers are
unable to access goods and services. This lowers the entire business activities. Furthermore,
shifting of temperature regime have brought about extinction of species. Lastly, global warming
have made people to abandon populated areas. This is caused by rise in sea level.
Intervention of government & business for and against global warming.
Most governments are providing civic education to the citizens on how human inference and
activities brings about the changes in climate and in particular the global warming. However,
some governments have done very little if any concerning global warning and its impact on the
past, current and future success of world business operations (Maslin 2013). The Australian
government has enacted ways to mitigate climate changes by lowering the emission of

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greenhouse gases. This has been achieved by innovation of carbon sinks which have capacity to
absorb toxic gases present in the atmosphere. A lot of energy conservation and energy efficiency
have been enacted to enhance future elimination of emission of gases. Again, governments have
advised their citizens to apply the low-carbon energy sources that include nuclear energy and
renewable energy. Carbon sinks have been achieved through elimination of deforestation and
promotion of reforestation. Technological mitigations are also applied in this case to lower
global warming.
However, some governments and business people fail to take this issue with the seriousness it
deserve. This is because, many of the human activities that causes global warming tend to raise
revenue to the government and interested business stakeholders. Production of electricity energy
from coal generate a lot of wealth to business people and raise revenue to governments. This
implies that, some government may enact policies to protect these businesses so as to raise the
underling wealth while on the other side the environment is greatly affected. Some countries
failed to join the United Nations Framework Convention Climate Change (UNFCCC) (Allen
2011). They is because they are interested in some human activities that generate wealth but in
the long run cause global warming.
Conclusion.
In conclusion, it is a responsibility of every individual to protect the environment so as to
maintain a friendly climate for all living organisms. Governments and businesses need to keep
their differences aside. They need to join hands and enact rules, regulations and policies that will
promote business empowerment and at the same instance protect climatic changes such as global
warming.

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References.
Books.
Allen, RC 2011, Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction, OUP Oxford.
Ball, T 2016, Human Caused Global Warming, Timothy Ball.
Houghton, J 2015, Global Warming: The Complete Briefing, Cambridge University Press.
Incropera, FP 2015, Climate Change: A Wicked Problem: Complexity and Uncertainty at the
Intersection of Science, Economics, Politics and Human Behavior, Cambridge University Press.
Maslin, M 2013, Climate: A very Short Introduction. OUP Oxford.
Plimer, I 2009, Heaven and Earth: Global Warming-The Missing Science, Quartet Books.
Journal.
Lambsdorff, JG 2012, ‘making corrupt deals-contracting in the shadow of the law’, journal of
Economic behavior and organization, pp. 221-241.
Online newspaper article.
Australian Government, Department of the Environment 2017, The Australian Government's
action on climate change. [Online]. Available at: http://www.environment.gov.au/climate-
change/publications/fact-sheet-australian-governments-action-climate-change (Accessed: 29
August 2017).