Sustainability is no longer an option but a necessity for the logistics industry. By embracing green practices, optimizing operations, and investing in technology, companies can reduce their environmental impact, improve their bottom line, and build a more sustainable future. Let us mind the environment, it will mind our businesses for prosperity. It is just the right thing to do. environment must be carefully managed. Regeneration mines is one huge initiative to place the environment back to its productive capacity for future generations. Parameters like damage to the soil, emission, and land management must be set. Initial baseline measurements are set and controlled. After this, environment impact improvement targets are set, with a view of achieving neutral status towards the environment.
Supply Chain
Minding The Environment
By Michael Nzule
If businesses do not take care of the environment, and engage in sustainable practices, then somebody will have to step in, to enforce compliance or to deal with protection of the environment. In times of disaster, when vagaries of weather strike, losses occur. It is an open secret that businesses have continuously contributed to the changes in climate which in turn is manifesting in untold magnitude of risks both to life and sustainability.
Businesses have no choice now. They must get involved in an accelerated manner and deal with matters environment. The choice of not getting involved by avoiding it, is not just foolhardy, but circles back to bite through further costs to deliver social goods like prevention of floods, environment protection taxes or related levies that Governments intervene with.
Global warming is a reality; it is no longer a story. As sure as death, interventions by government will be manifested as a passthrough charge to businesses, as taxes or related surcharges and levies. This is the new reality. Can this be avoided?
The logistics industry faces a critical need to adopt sustainable practices due to the pressing concerns of climate change and environmental impact. This includes reducing emissions, optimizing supply chains, and minimizing waste generation. Failing to address these issues can lead to increased costs, reputational damage, and disruptions to operations.
Logistics industry is one of the key industries that play a critical role in lives of humanity across the world. Logistics and supply chains are involved mostly in the movement of goods and the attendant services. Key considerations impacting environment include extraction of inputs( raw materials directly from the environment), industrial production( manufacturing) and movement of the goods( through various modes of transport) and reverse logistics which cover returns, waste management and disposals. It is therefore critical that the logistics industry accelerates interventions to protect environment and support sustainable business processes.
Current trends show active response to climate change by adopting sustainable practices and technologies. In extractive industries, which cover processes like mining and agriculture, direct impact to
Sustainability is no longer an option but a necessity for the logistics industry. By embracing green practices, optimizing operations, and investing in technology, companies can reduce their environmental impact, improve their bottom line, and build a more sustainable future. Let us mind the environment, it will mind our businesses for prosperity. It is just the right thing to do. environment must be carefully managed. Regeneration mines is one huge initiative to place the environment back to its productive capacity for future generations. Parameters like damage to the soil, emission, and land management must be set. Initial baseline measurements are set and controlled. After this, environment impact improvement targets are set, with a view of achieving neutral status towards the environment.
Some of the trends in managing the environment include changes to lowemission modes of transport. These include the use of electric vehicles, renewable energies, rout optimisation and planning, sustainable packaging, green and warehouse solutions. All these are then weaved into carefully designed climate risk management strategy. Further initiatives include investing in weather prediction technologies and modelling and active inclusion of weather patterns in the dayto-day business process management.
Let us now review some of the sustainability imperatives that logistics industry is pursuing, not just as a-goodto-have, but as part of the expected ways of doing business. One of the most popular consideration is reduction of emissions with targets towards achieving net zero status. Emission reduction refers to minimisation of the greenhouse gas( GHG) emissions generated by businesses, individuals and on a large scale, countries. The emissions have contributed to global warming, and severe disruption of weather patterns. Other gases include methane, nitrous oxide, and hydrofluorocarbons( HFCs).
To address this, there is investment in green energy and elimination of fossil fuels through use of electric or hybrid vehicles and optimization of delivery routes. As earlier indicated, businesses must have in place mechanisms to identify
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