Go Green Initiative in Australia: Assessing Benefits, Challenges

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the "Go Green" initiative, focusing on its implementation and impact in Australia. It highlights the factors contributing to the initiative, such as incorporating environmental education and promoting recycling in industries, and discusses the benefits, including carbon emission management, sustainability promotion, and cost savings through resource reuse. The report also addresses the disadvantages of going green, such as high initial costs and potential environmental impacts from alternative fuels. It emphasizes the importance of adopting both environmental and social science methods to tackle pollution challenges, particularly concerning the Great Barrier Reef and coastal regions. The report concludes that while green projects are essential for reducing pollution and conserving resources, careful planning and consideration of potential drawbacks are necessary for successful implementation.

GO GREEN INITIATING, HOW IT CAN HELP?
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Table of contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Issue.................................................................................................................................................3
Factors contributing to go green initiative.......................................................................................4
Benefits of go green initiative..........................................................................................................4
Disadvantages of go green initiative................................................................................................5
Analysis...........................................................................................................................................6
How it Helps....................................................................................................................................7
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8
Reference list...................................................................................................................................9
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Introduction
The most important reason of go green is to create a sustainable earth and a better living place
for each human being. Use of green energies is not only beneficial to develop the use of natural
resources but also helpful to uplift economical value for different countries. Geothermal,
hydroelectricity, solar, wind are part of this approach that helps to make necessary changes in the
environment. Green initiative in Australia has conducted due to massive degradation of
environmental sources in this country. This study has focused to assess the factors that are
connected with the go green initiatives and benefits that can be extracted from this approach.
Disadvantages have also mentioned evaluating the way in which support for go green can be a
better help for human being.
Issue
The notable issue that is recently attracting most of the attention in Australia is the degrading
status of Great Barrier Reef. Due to increasing environmental pressure as low quality water,
climate change, mass bleaching of coral, overfishing, the Great Barrier Reef in Australia is
facing a threat of abolished. Imbalance of greenhouse gases has influenced the rising temperature
and change in weather and climate. According to the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial
Research Organization, the climate temperature in Australia will rise between 0.4°C to 2.0°C by
2030 (australia.isidewith.com, 2018). Highly polluted air is the reason behind several air and
water pollution diseases such as asthma attacks, respiratory problem, heartache, and several other
decisions.
Figure 1: Presence of polluted particles in the air in different places
(Source: Kagan et al. 2017)
As shown in the above graph Brisbane has the highest percentage of Polluted particles in its air.
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This disparity is highly effective for human health and also reduces the proportionate amount of
fresh air in the climate of the Country. In the year 2014, the pollution perception quality in the air
is 83.68% and transport CO2 emissions index has reached 4192.63 (greenpeace.org.au, 2018).
Factors contributing to go green initiative
Incorporating of ‘Go Green living' in education level is the most accomplished state that helps to
access the learning on environment from a very early stage of life. According to the present
trends, Students are more interested to access hands-on method in order to learn with proper
activity. As suggested by Arthington et al. (2015), this initiative is helpful enough to access
ecological experience from the beginning. A complete change cannot be accessed from the early
stage unless they are aware of it.
Programming and arrangement of campaign are some beneficiary approaches that help to access
a slow transformation on people's psychology about environmental concern. On the other hand,
Carrick et al. (2015) have suggested that showcasing the after effect will be helpful to make
people thought about it.
In industrial sector, ‘Go green Members' are influencing the companies to access the process of
recycling. Reduce; reuse and recycling are helpful to manage the cost of production in a business
venture. Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 has indulged the rule
to use the least carbon emission and implement the highly efficient waste management system in
the business process.
Benefits of go green initiative
Australian states have the law to mandate environmental compliance in different ways and
forms. As suggested by Clements and Kotalik (2016), the agenda to maintain the green initiatives
are helping to manage carbon emission planning, promote sustainability. In addition to this, the
saving of money has been influenced by several agencies in order to reuse existing substances
rather than accessing new products. Australia has made partnership with several agencies in
order to start the use of sustainable biojet fuel. Purchasing low carbon, renewable fuel does not
only help to manage the carbon emissions but also extend price competitiveness with other
ventures.
Awareness of green marketing is helpful to manage the sustainable sources and protect
environment against rapid degradation. As suggested by Kagan et al. (2017), verbal expression is
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not valuable to advertise green initiative whereas, the same approach can access better result
from the green business and marketing policy. In order to access this support, Australia is
favoring to the give attention to the infrastructure development in an eco-friendly way.
Veolia, a leading environment solution that provides a better waste management policy in
Australia and New Zealand in order decrease the pollution level of water and energy service
industry. In Australian Business award sustainability, Veolia has utilized a power generator and
an outstanding solution for alternate food production. Kristensen (2015) explained that aims to
access advantage in turning waste into the source are helpful enough to reduce the huge waste
disposal issue in this country. As the country is going to develop its green initiative, it is better to
access more eco-friendly steps in terms of environmental sustainability in this country. With a
planned approach towards the environmental sustainability it can be benefitted from the go green
initiative. Based on the recent issues the study has enhanced to create an approach that can help
the state to access a green revolution. The factors of green initiative have referred that the
initiatives must be accessed from earlier life of human being as they can absorb it in their
thoughts.
Disadvantages of go green initiative
There are many disadvantages of going green and are listed as follows;
Cost of going green is considerably high
As per the view of A Daniell and Kay, (2018), going green initiatives are expensive though many
are of the opinion that it is a cost saving process. The technologies that are required to be
installed in order to save the environment from harmful effects of fuels are available in the
market at high prices. Some of these technologies include Solar panels, green construction
materials and many others. As argued by Rechcigl and Rechcigl, (2016), energy efficient
technologies are costly though it needs fewer amounts of electricity and water. The cost to
develop such technologies is very high and thus these are available at high prices.
It is a time consuming process
As opined by Kroon et al. (2016), going green initiative takes a lot of time at initial stages and
the time factor is the main issue of going green. Firstly the adoption of green technologies and
green living takes a lot of time as time is required to choose the type of green lifestyle to be
adopted. A proper plan needs to lay out with the available amount of funds reviewed. Secondly
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the payback period of the investments done in the green initiatives is very lengthy. To observe
the final outcome of the green projects an organization or a person who has invested needs to
wait for long. As per the view of Laidlaw et al. (2018), the return on investments done in green
projects takes a lot of time to mature.
Has an impact on environment
As opined by Miller et al. (2015), going green is also not free from harmful effects on the
environment. There are many negative impacts of going green totally. The development or
innovation of alternative fuels for reducing the dependency on non renewable resources, have
harmful effects too. As per the view of Pettit et al. (2015), one of the alternative fuels that were
developed to reduce the usage of non renewable resources is E85. E85 releases ozone into the
environment and releases comparatively higher ozone than ordinary fuels. This in turn increases
the air pollution making smog a concern for the people in nearby areas.
Analysis
Figure 2: Environmental challenges
(Source: Clements and Kotalik, 2016)
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The issues as discussed in the study focus on the protection of great barrier reefs and much of the
coastal region of the Australia. As per the viewpoint of Sugiyama et al. (2013), both
environmental and social science methods must be adopted to face the growing challenges of
pollution in Australia. The loss of biodiversity and the harmful effects on the coastal areas can be
solved by incorporating green projects in the region. The formation of methodologies and
modelling can lead to effective planning. The local peoples should also be made a part of the
projects because they know the area better than anyone. As per the opinion of A Daniell and
Kay, (2018), use of scientific methods can reduce the pollution considerably. Some of the green
initiatives taken by Australian Government are Leighton Contractors and Veolin which looks
after energy consumption. There are many eco friendly techniques that have been adopted in
Australia to make the heritage sites like Great Barrier Reefs, Kakadu National park and
Whitsunday Island pollution free.
How it Helps
Going green initiative has both positive and negative impacts on the environment and these are
discussed below;
Reduces pollution
As concerned for go green initiatives, use of bio fuels or electricity for powering the vehicles can
be a major help. These would be effective for the reduction of harmful smokes emitted from the
vehicles so as to prevent the air from having poisonous chemical combinations (Rechcigl and
Rechcigl, 2016).
Conserves resources
Factual energy consumption such as through use of light bulbs or using the sunlight for drying of
clothes are an effective strategy for the reduction of energy consumptions. Apart from such, use
of nature’s gift such as fresh air or sunlight for catering the daily need can also sustain the fact of
resources conservation (Kroon et al. (2016).
Creates less waste
The strategy of using the 3R’s theory complying to Recycle, reuse and reduce can cater to the
creation of lesser wastes. Some tactics including use of paper cups instead of plastic can be a
great step. Banning of plastic bottles and using water purifying systems can reduce contaminated
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waste generation. Also the fact of compiling vegetable wastes and producing manure out of it for
catering the plants can be taken into consideration (Arthington et al. 2015).
Preserves the wildlife
The primary requirement of preserving wildlife is the planting of more and more greener
environment over which the sustainability of wildlife can be considered. Apart from such,
banning of plastic materials in wildlife premises can also be catered. Signing petitions are also
taken to a fact for prese45ving the wildlife favouring go green initiatives (Clements et al. 2016).
Emission of less greenhouse gas
Mainly the emission from that of transportation account for 45%, while the other amenities such
as air conditioners and cooling devices are accounted for having 20% emission towards the
atmosphere (Kristensen et al. 2015). Against such, as mentioned above, use of eco friendly
electric vehicles along with compelling to natural air more than using AC’s can be a favourable
step against green house gas emission.
Conclusion
The study focused and analysed the effects of going green initiatives. Green projects are essential
to be adopted by each and every country to reduce the harmful effects of gases. Benefits of the
green initiatives have been discussed and these are mainly conservation of plants, wildlife, and
marine life. By adopting green projects, less amount of waste are created. Number of landfills is
reduced. Emission of fewer amounts of greenhouse gases is another benefit of green initiatives.
However, there are many disadvantages of it too. Like it takes enough time and may
technologies that are part of it are expensive. Some of the alternative fuels release ozone in the
atmosphere and this is big concern for the environment as a whole. Analysis has been done in
respect to Australia’s coastal region and the challenges it faces. Green projects thus are essential
for the environment as it reduces pollution.
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