Implementing EMSs

Running head: ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS IMPLICATION 1
Implementing EMSs
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ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IMPLIMENTATION 2
Environmental systems implementation.
The greatest challenges that Australia faces in natural resource and environmental
management includes degradation of aquatic ecosystems and terrestrial, raising of soil
erosion, lack of enough and enough water, atmospheric changes and other important climatic
changes, (Cary, & Roberts, 2011). In the Australian agricultural sector, production of grains is
the most important contributing around 65 percent of the economic growth. The
environmental impact, however, is rarely accounted for in this case, leading to the emission
of greenhouse gases such as methane and other nitrous oxides. This gases normally are
emitted through the application of chemical and farm mechanisms during farming. It is due to
this emission that the Australian agricultural industry is experiencing a lot of impacts like the
raising heat similar mortality and the spread of infectious diseases, rising in the sea levels,
possibilities of losses in biological diversity, impact in crop yields likewise productivity and
reduced snow cover.
Even though the production of agricultural products is much effective in ensuring that
there is enough food in the county, the focus has shifted from ensuring that there is enough
food produced to base on how this food is produced, (Collins, et al.2016). That is the method
used in food production, the chemical used and their effects on the environment. After the
second world two, the perception of the consumer has totally changed concerning the
agricultural production due to the use of the chemical such as pesticides. The increased
production is a major contributor to the environmental impacts and therefore calling for the
environmental management mechanisms in order to help in managing the environment.
The environmental management system can be defined as a method of ensuring that
the information is passed across the organization used in decision making by the
management. Hence, (Daddi,et al.2016) environmental management systems are the systematic

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method to dealing with the aspects of the business environmental management likewise
giving the right information that can help in ensuring that those effects are solved in a more
effective manner. The purpose of environmental management systems is to ensure
measurable performance.
In ensuring the implementation of the environmental management system, the life
cycle assessment tool can be used to reduce the environmental emission from grain products
of Australia, (Notarnicola et al 2017). Lifecycle tool uses the approach of ‘cradle to grave' in
order to access the environmental effects of various categories of the supply chain, especially
for grain production. Secondly, the application of techniques used in cleaner production is a
technique used to improve the product lifecycle.
The supply chain of the grain industry involves several stages such as raw material
which are the input supplies, producers which are the farmers, marketers of the grain,
retailers, users and finally the waste management. All these steps contribute to the
environmental issues if not properly handled. Hence, a better understanding of this steps can
manage the environmental effects associated with the production of the grains. In Australia,
the major elements of the grain supply chain include, pre-farming, then there is on –farming,
storage and processing, retailing and consumption and finally, transportation, (Waters, 2013).
The national greenhouse gas inventory measures only the emissions and ignores the other
entire supply chain. Actually, in the year 2005, the greenhouse gas emission was the second
emitter coming after the energy generating sector of the stationary. If all stages of the supply
chain in the agricultural sector is considered, the contribution to the national emission in total,
then this will likely to be higher than what is displayed in the national inventory.
The life cycle assessment is a tool used to determine the consumption of the resources
and their environmental impacts related to the production of specific activity or products. It