Building a Sustainable Organisation: Impact of Climate Change on Businesses and Ways to Reduce Carbon Emission

This report evaluates the impact of climate change on businesses worldwide, highlighting the challenges faced by organisations due to changing demand, consumer behaviour, resource availability, and regulations. It also suggests ways for businesses to reduce their carbon footprint by reducing energy consumption, waste, and selecting sustainable suppliers.

INDIVIDUAL REPORT
BUILDING A
SUSTAINABLE
ORGANISATION
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Evaluation of how climate change impacting businesses around the world................................3
Appropriate ways through businesses can reduce their carbon emission....................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Climate change define as the long term changes in the temperature and weather specimen.
These changes can be natural such as from variations in the solar pattern, but it is found that
human activities are more responsible for the climate change (Sigala, 2020). Primarily because
of burning the excessive amount of the fossil fuels like coal, oil etc. Climate change has adverse
impact over the ecosystem it is affecting the livelihoods or mankind at great extent. For the
world business purpose, it has the great impact over the organisational operations and leads to
cause many challenges for the businesses to successfully run their firm. As warming planet is
causing the great range of the risks to the businesses all around the world, as it disrupting the
supply chain to increase the insurance costs to worker challenges. Following report is based on
analysing the impact of climate change over the business across the world and also highlighting
the suggestion for the businesses to reduce the carbon footprint.
MAIN BODY
Evaluation of how climate change impacting businesses around the world
Climate change has raised the concern for the world to move towards the green economy,
as warmer weather pattern is disrupting the balance in nature and has created the potential risks
for all form of life on earth. Humans and animals are struggling to survive because of the climate
change it continuously causing the life threatening situation for the mankind. As changes in
weather posing the dramatic risks for the businesses whether they are large of small. Some of the
problematic challenges which the businesses are facing are as follows:
Changes drives in good demands:
Combination of changing costs and changes within the climate patterns are driving major
changes in demand of goods. As demand for the cold weather goods which are heating oil is
declining by the consumer in market (Braccini and Margherita, 2018). because of rising
temperature consumers declining all cold products which can be the major loss for the business
whose main products line are based on winter goods. Consumers are shifting towards
sustainability as they demand for the eco-friendly products which is the other problematic cause
for the businesses.
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Changing customer perception:
Because of changing consumer behaviour, it is affecting the approach which the
businesses proceed with, as consumer in the market has raised the demand for organic and
sustainable product. Thus for producing such products requires a large amount of investment, as
shifting towards green is quite challenging as for installing the facilities that control the
emission, systems to monitor the emission of greenhouse gases required a large capital
investment, thus it is a threat for the businesses across the world.
Conversion in resource availability and cost:
Extreme warm weather is threat for the supply chain as getting the resources and
materials on the time is now a biggest challenge for all businesses. Severe draught and other
natural calamity has lead the disruption in farming because of draught there is a shortage in crops
that utilised for foods, apparel and all other goods (Steiger and et.al 2019). Rise in expenses for
the logistics, electricity is increasing the prices of moving the products. Regulatory prohibition
on products is also associated with the climate change increasing the cost. Unavailability in
resources forcing businesses to utilise the resource alternative and proceed with recycling and
source reduction.
Changing regulations:
Regulations that are implemented for preventing the pollution also has significant impact
over the business. Businesses that has large amount of emission must have to invest substantial
funding towards installing their services to reduce their greenhouse gases emission and focus on
controlling it otherwise they will have to face the legal actions to not comply with regulations.
Appropriate ways through businesses can reduce their carbon emission
The way which the businesses can reduce their carbon footprint are as follows:
Reduce the energy consumption:
It is one of the effective approach which the businesses can do as to decrease the
excessive use of energy, natural resources that contributes towards change in weather. As turning
of the lights and other machineries after office hour ends, also by paying more attention towards
the daily activities, will help out the businesses to save energy and resources that do not impact
on climate.
Reduce waste and fight obsoleteness:

Another way is to reduce the waste which is generated from operational tasks whether it
is paper waste or other company should have the parameters to measure the waste (Flörke,
Schneider and McDonald, 2018). Organisations must have to commit the green workplace
culture, thus for that there should be no use of disposable cups, stirrers for coffee machine
instead of this providing kitchen crockeries, also to limit the use of prints, papers often reuse it to
reduce the waste. It is also essential to utilise the equipment appropriately to prevent them from
rapid deteriorated and to repair the devices instead of buying new one.
Select sustainable suppliers:
Having an environmental responsible supplier will be plus point for the businesses, thus
for that organisation need to make efforts for selecting the right suppliers who present their good
sustainable practices (Fernando, Jabbour and Wah, 2019). Thus they should ask their suppliers
to show the certificate about practicing the sustainability such as to provide the evidence of not
employing the children, if any supplier refuse to change and to give some proofs then
organisations can proceed to switch to the new supplier.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it is concluded that climate change is the biggest threat for all
mankind, it has the adverse impact over the human health and as well as it affected the business
operations at large extent. Above it illustrated that climate change and its problematic effects
over the businesses, it discussed how businesses around the world facing serious threats because
of warming weather, as supply chain is completely disrupted by warming weather. It highlighted
some problematic effect of climate change which covered the changing demand for goods,
changing consumer behaviour. It lastly concluded with the recommendations to the businesses in
order to reduce their emission, by controlling their operational tasks.
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REFERENCES
Books and journals
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Fernando, Y., Jabbour, C.J.C. and Wah, W.X., 2019. Pursuing green growth in technology firms
through the connections between environmental innovation and sustainable business
performance: does service capability matter?. Resources, Conservation and
Recycling. 141. pp.8-20.
Flörke, M., Schneider, C. and McDonald, R.I., 2018. Water competition between cities and
agriculture driven by climate change and urban growth. Nature Sustainability. 1(1).
pp.51-58.
Sigala, M., 2020. Tourism and COVID-19: Impacts and implications for advancing and resetting
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Steiger, R. and et.al 2019. A critical review of climate change risk for ski tourism. Current Issues
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