Impact of green initiatives on environmental sustainability and well-being of Australia

Sustainability and Well-being

Table of Contents
Table of Contents.............................................................................................................................2
1.0 Introduction...........................................................................................................................4
1.1 Rationale of the research.......................................................................................................5
2.0 Literature review........................................................................................................................5
2.1 Understanding the concept of green initiatives and environmental sustainability................5
2.2 Analyzing the factors affecting green initiatives of environmental sustainability................6
2.3 Critically evaluate the impact of different green initiatives on the environmental
sustainability and well-being of Australia...................................................................................8
3.0 Aims and objectives...................................................................................................................9
4.0 Research methodologies............................................................................................................9
4.1 Research design.....................................................................................................................9
4.2 Sampling or participants recruitment...................................................................................10
4.2.1 Role of the researcher...................................................................................................11
4.3 Data gathering methods.......................................................................................................11
4.4 Data analysis........................................................................................................................12
5.0 Research limitations.................................................................................................................12
6.0 Ethical consideration...............................................................................................................13
7.0 Timeline...................................................................................................................................13
8.0 Conclusion...............................................................................................................................14
9.0 References................................................................................................................................15
List of Table
Table 1: Expected timeline for completion of research proposal..................................................10

Title- Impact of green initiatives on environmental sustainability and well-being of Australia- A
study on the Australian retail sector
1.0 Introduction
Green initiatives are an vital aspect for the current businesses because the environment is
getting affected by the carbon dioxide emissions which decreases environmental sustainability
(Eltayeb, Zailani & Ramayah, 2011). In this context, green practices help the organizations to
maintain a balance between environment and sustainable factors so that harnessing of resources
cannot take place in the environment. Furthermore, the current environment is dealing with the
several issues such as scarcity of natural resources, excessive gaseous environment and
imbalance in the economic growth etc. which has a direct impact on the environmental
sustainability and well-being of the humans (Eltayeb & Zailani, 2009). In this context, emphasize
has been led on the use of green practices in the business activities so that the harmful impact on
the environment may be reduced. Here, green initiatives can be in the different forms such as
green supply chain, green construction, greenery in logistics, green material etc. which supports
to maintain an equilibrium between available resources and future expectations (Sezen &
Cankaya, 2013).
Reduction in waste and optimum utilization of available resources is promoted by
manufacturing eco-friendly products, packaging of products which develops the benefits for the
firms (Boudreau, Chen & Huber, 2008). Besides this, green technology supports the
organizations to use the eco-friendly techniques so that minimal impact occurs on the
sustainability of the environment because least harmful or none objects might arise in their use.
However, there are different factors which create issues and obstacles for the organizations in the
implementation of green practices such as stakeholder’s involvement, governmental factors and
support of top management (Chin, Tat & Sulaiman, 2015). Nonetheless, the effect of factors
might be reduced by focusing on the adequate inclusion of all the factors. Here, in the current
study, different factors and varied green practices have been critically analyzed for the
achievement of the aim and purpose of the research with a study on Australian retail sectors.

1.1 Rationale of the research
Going green is important for the organizations to attain environmental sustainability and
wellbeing by reducing the waste of material, resources, energy etc. (Darnall, Jolley & Handfield,
2008). However, businesses are suffering through the higher institutional pressure and changing
buyers’ behaviour where companies have to reshape their supply chain by considering the
expectations of these different stakeholders (Ahmed, 2018; Wallace, 2017). Although, it incurs
the colossal cost and require an extended time of management for promoting sustainability
through the SC operation. Still, companies face an issue in term of continuous hike in the CO2
emission and unethical supply chain activities (Moldan, Janoušková & Hák, 2012). This affects
the overall environmental wellbeing and competitiveness of the business. Although, effective
strategies which are cost-effective cum competitive are useful to the companies. Owing to this,
the study on the impact of green initiatives on environmental sustainability and wellbeing is
imperative whereby efforts of the business can be assessed against the specific standards.
2.0 Literature review
2.1 Understanding the concept of green initiatives and environmental sustainability
 Green initiatives- According to Gültekin & Erenoğlu (2018), going green is associated
with the pursuance of those practices which helps to maintain eco-friendly environment
and further supports to take the adequate decisions for the environmental sustainability.
Additionally, green initiatives help to protect the environment sustainability by natural
resources for current and future generations. Further, Trică & Papuc (2013) asserted that
the green concept in the use of resources helps to maintain a balance between the
availability of resources and scarcity of resources so that future expectations may not
hamper. Here, green initiatives take place in different sectors such as green supply chain
and logistics management, saving of resources like energy, water, oil etc. (Chin, Tat &
Sulaiman, 2015). The main objective of the green initiatives is to offsetting of greenhouse
gases which are emitted by human activities. Furthermore, these emissions are associated
with big production projects to small steps as driving of a variety of vehicles which has
an adverse impact on environmental sustainability.
 Environmental sustainability- Reduction of wastage of resources and sustainability is
ensured by using green technologies and keeping the equilibrium between environmental