Building a Sustainable Organisation: How Climate Change Affects Business and Steps to Reduce Carbon Footprint

This report discusses the impact of climate change on businesses and the steps they can take to reduce their carbon footprint. It covers topics such as the effect of climate change on supply chains, the benefits of using recycled resources, and the importance of investing in green energy. The report concludes with a call to action for businesses to adopt sustainable practices and policies.

BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE
ORGANISATION

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
How climate change affect the business ....................................................................................3
Steps businesses can implement to reduce their carbon footprint...............................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Sustainable organization is the form of an entity which is striving to build sustainable
organization, it takes such steps while performing its operations and sort of other activities in
such way so can uphold the notion of sustainability. (Rostkowski, Strzem iński and Szymański,
2020) The report would be discussing that how the climate change is affecting business.
In the present scenario the environmental crisis can not be denied, there are number of
environmental issues such as carbon emission, melting glaciers, toppling forest cover etc. These
all phenomenons are affecting set of practises and course of actions, the report will be evaluating
such notions with respect to the business.
At the end of the report a well-articulated process would be described, showing some
steps which can be taken to reduce carbon footprints for an organization, these steps consist
convictions such as planting trees, recycling waste, making more investments in green energy
etc. it would be paving way to make the environment more inclined to the favourable side.
MAIN BODY
How climate change affect the business
The effect or climate change to business work as the warming plant build the several
risks for business through interrupted supply chain to gain insurance cost to labour challenges.
The climate change and extreme change in weather events such as floods and fires have the
affect over 70 percent of economic sector worldwide. Such changes are occurred by much of
CO2 emissions driven from business economy activities. Business could provide the contribution
to innovation as well as solutions to prevent, alter to climate change ans its unfavourable impact
on people and planet (Cheng and et.al., 2019). Changing weather formats are the source of
dramatic risk to large and small business, also emission control system would be so costly by
which public companies will required to conclude them as business cost. Whereas the climate
change justifies the consumer behaviour to harm some business and beneficial to others.
Although such climate condition demand will shift, for instance such demand for heating may
decline as when the demand of other winter goods will rise. Most of the customers prefer
prioritizing sustainability in products they buy, so shifting demand will direct to the
environmental friendly goods.
For example, the business get more challenge where the extreme weather creates the
potential to break off supply chains by getting resources and raw materials in challenging way.

Several droughts and changing patterns leads to shortage of crop which is used for foods,
clothing and other products. It executes the harsh working conditions due to pattern changes, the
working conditions become unpleasant. Job which accept the physical labour conditions
specifically outdoors are the most challenging as well as health and safety concerns will rise.
There are some threats of climate change to international security, policymaker as well as publi
must understand about such change is impacting unrelated challenges and identifies the existing
threat (Cvenkel, 2020). The direct outcome of climate change are promptly evident around world
such as rising seas, levels, droughts, torrential rains, hotter heat waves etc. such effect are the
unfortunate consequences for people in terms of fishery collapses, crop failures, water insecurity
such aspect leads to mass migration and replacement. Climate change is indiscriminating
challenge anything humanity has encountered before. Further companies can introduce the CSR
and sustainable development strategy for their carbon offsetting projects.
Steps businesses can implement to reduce their carbon footprint
There are many steps which business can use to take for reducing their carbon footprints which
could be anything from applying recycling conditions in ways to actively planting trees.
Using recycled resources
By the resources of using recycling materials help the business to assist conservation of
earth resource. For instance, the use of recyclable paper product will support to reduce the
deforestation and preserve natural habitats as well (Lange, Wodon and Carey, 2018). The world
population of insect is declined by 25 percent and the major reason behind this is the destruction
of habitats. Thus, with the help of recycling products business can safeguard to natural habitats
of nation wildlife as well as decreasing their carbon footprint.
Planting trees
Planting tress and maintaining the green culture is the better way to boost staff well-being
and offset the carbon emissions of company. While business may nit be able to see the plant
growth physically, but they can contribute to planting and essential biodiversity effort in several
parts of globe where it is specifically required.
Investing in green energy
Such investments are the better way to introduce the business carbon footprint. Business
can invest in renewable resources, in which solar panels is the great option for business with cash
reserves (.Mendoza, Gallego-Schmid and Azapagic, 2019). In physical workplace such ways

help to reducing the energy consumptions such as allowing the energy saving as well as battery
saving modes on all over PC and mobile working devices.
Recyling
This is the most effective way to reduce the carbon emission of organization, while
recycling the amount of product should be used from scratch. For example, recycling the single
tin could save adequate energy to power computer, also there is no limit to the several times
those tin can be recycled. Implementing recycling process in work culture fosters a green work
working environment.
CONCLUSION
Form the report above it can be concluded that the sustainable practise at business is a
rigours need of present time, over the time with the industrial revolution there are mammoth
amounts of issues coming due to weakening environment.
The report had articulated that how environmental factors are affecting business practise,
with this regard, some salient areas such as carbon emission, melting glaciers, reduction of green
practices were taken into contemplation, in attempt to decipher the ideas to the fullest extent to
present that how environmental crisis may bring horrendous consequences for the business.
At the end of the report, process is suggested depicting steps which can be taken to
mitigate these impacts and making it environment friendly for instance- recycling of waste,
promoting green energy, planting more trees, using recycled resources etc. it can be summarized
that there is inevitable requirement to fetch better policies to stop the calamity for making place.

REFERENCES
Books and journals
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higher education. International Journal of Services, Economics and Management. 10(4).
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Cvenkel, N., 2020. Evaluation of Workplace Well-Being Research: Developing Healthy,
Resilient and Sustainable Organisation—A Public Sector Case Study. In Well-Being in
the Workplace: Governance and Sustainability Insights to Promote Workplace
Health (pp. 345-368). Springer, Singapore.
Lange, G.M., Wodon, Q. and Carey, K. eds., 2018. The changing wealth of nations 2018:
Building a sustainable future. World Bank Publications.
Mendoza, J.M.F., Gallego-Schmid, A. and Azapagic, A., 2019. Building a business case for
implementation of a circular economy in higher education institutions. Journal of
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Rostkowski, T., Strzemiński, J. and Szymański, K., 2020. The Concepts of Sustainable
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