Building a Sustainable Organisation: Steps to Reduce Carbon Footprint

This report discusses the impact of climate change on businesses and the challenges they face, such as operational impact, political availability, and cost of resources. It also suggests steps businesses can take to reduce their carbon footprint, such as reusing and recycling products, using sustainable suppliers, and choosing energy-efficient appliances.

Building a Sustainable
Organisation

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
The climate change could be challenging for businesses across the world.................................3
Suggesting steps businesses can implement to reduce their carbon footprint.............................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Climate changes are a long term effect which harms the nature and human health in
wider population and provides the negative results and outcome. The climate change can
threaten the people with the scarcity of water, food and even shelter from where the human
health can be get affected in maximum manner. However, this climatic change also puts the
great negative impact business industries across the overall world (Mitchard, 2018). The
current report will illustrate the brief about the different types of issues a business
organisation face and suffer during the climatic change and enable themselves to earn the
less amount of profit and outcome. Along with this, the report will also going to mention
some steps from where the business firm can implement and reduce the carbon footprint in
definite order.
MAIN BODY
The climate change could be challenging for businesses across the world
Climatic changes simply mean a long term change in the entire world where the rise of
temperature and weather patterns takes place such as flood. Today, the entire world is growing
and developing where the human activities are creating the maximum amount of change in the
surroundings from where the earth is getting wider amount of impact. As, it has been known that
the climate change is occurring rapidly in today generation which is caused by the unethical
activities of the human creature from which they are impacting the nature and environment in
definite way so that the temperature and weather patterns are changing rapidly. Human creature
is dynamically creating and making some implications from where they are harming the nature in
need of generating the electricity, manufacturing of the goods and cutting down of the forest and
tress from where the natural substances are getting affected and providing the climatic changes
in negative manner (White, 2018). Thus, the entire world and country wants to grow and develop
at definite level where the different business and organisations are getting impacted by these
climatic changes and leads them to not obtain the maximum amount of profit and productivity
and drives them to acquire poor results.
To run any business or an organisation, the management has to keep their focus on each
and every part of the business where it includes, costing, expenditures, operations, management,
rules and regulation and most importantly a reputational area. However, the business has been
made by putting all the efforts in regard to different department and sub-departments where they

can lead the company to obtain effective results. Due to these human activities it causes dynamic
climatic changes and again affects the human itself through the improper productivity from the
business and company. Also, it has been identified that the organisations also facing the issue
and problem in financial areas due to improper change of climate and weather and makes the
business to obtain negative results and outcome. Here, mentioning some issue which an
organisation suffers because of climatic changes and enable them to identify the appropriate
solution in definite manner (Kahn, Mohadde and et.al., 2019).
Operational impact: Operational department is the most important part of the business where
this management is responsible for looking out the transportation, manufacturing o the products
and services by focusing of the safety areas of the consumer’s. Along with they are also having a
duty to handle the facilities damage, workforce satisfactions and needs where the climatic
changes create a disturbance in handling and managing these all duties in definite manner unable
to focus on the particular process effectively which leads the business or an organisation to
obtain the negative results and outcome.
Political availability: The political rules and regulations also put the great impact on the
business industries where the government has made different health and safety laws and
legislation in regard to climatic changes and for the betterment of the public and society so that
the business industry also can be able to obtain the results in definite manner (Fanzo, Davis,
McLaren and Choufani, 2018). The changes and modification in laws and legislation impacts the
business operations and process in negative manner for example changes is guideline soft
transportation due to climatic changes where the export and import of the goods in a business
creates the problem.
Cost of resources: Due to climatic changes, the cost of the materials and resources rises up
where it leads the company to pay higher amount in exchange for the product or a raw materials
where the company gets loses. In addition, due to climatic changes the scarcity of food and
resources occurs where is directly impact the consumer and human wellbeing and provides the
difficulties (Cinner, Adger, Allison, and et.al., 2018).
Suggesting steps businesses can implement to reduce their carbon footprint
 The business or an organisation can reuse and recycle the products in definite manner.
 They also can use sustainable supplier
 Can use public transport for traveling in regard to business purpose.

 Avoid printing of the pamphlet for the marketing and can use digitalisation.
 Choose energy efficiency appliance which help to reduce carbon footprint.
CONCLUSION
The report has concluded the importance and brief about the climatic changes and
environmental harmful areas from where the climatic change can create disastrous situation and
can put the great impact on the human and living creature. However, it is important to understand
the different issues a company or business faces due to different climatic changes from where the
company cannot be able to earn the profit in wider manner and provides the definite results.
Along with this, the report has also includes some major steps which a business or organisation
needs to adopt and follow to reduce the harmfulness of the environment and surrounding and
also can reduce the carbon footprints which can deliver the effective amount of result to the
nature and business as well.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Cinner, J.E., Adger, W.N., Allison, and et.al., 2018. Building adaptive capacity to climate change
in tropical coastal communities. Nature Climate Change. 8(2), pp.117-123.
Fanzo, J., Davis, C., McLaren, R. and Choufani, J., 2018. The effect of climate change across
food systems: Implications for nutrition outcomes. Global food security. 18, pp.12-19.
Kahn, M.E., Mohaddes, K., Ng, and et.al., 2019. Long-term macroeconomic effects of climate
change: A cross-country analysis. (No. w26167). National Bureau of Economic Research.
Mitchard, E.T., 2018. The tropical forest carbon cycle and climate change. Nature, 559(7715),
pp.527-534.
White, R., 2018. Climate change criminology. Policy Press.