Curbing Climate Change – Corporate Initiatives |
Discourse on the effects of climate change is required on a local as well as national level; however this alone cannot prove effective in ensuring environmental sustainability. This global issue requires initiatives from all sectors, especially business organizations that are the highest emitter of green house gases in the environment. Even though climate change has made it to the corporate agendas across the world, more companies need to disclose valuable information on these issues voluntarily. This information would include anything from specific targets to verified data that will display the company’s climate activism.
The complexity of global climate change cannot be denied as the energy used to power homes, offices and factories is the main source of greenhouse gas emission. Since this energy is being used in all sectors, a climate change policy framework is required that will provide practical and easy solutions to companies and individuals. With stakeholders demanding more transparency on such subjects, companies are getting encouraged to address their social and environmental responsibilities. They are setting challenges to address this problem and meet the goals set by the government. In order to make this possible, several companies all over the United States have combined power and heat technology to enhance energy efficiency. They are making efforts to develop better energy sources so that the emission of green house gases can be reduced.
Emission tracking and estimation tools have also been developed by companies so that they are able to assess whether or not the target of reducing carbon emission is being met. The data collected by these tools is then made public to the stakeholders in order to keep them informed about the progress. Many business organizations have established partnership with research institutions and universities. Millions of dollars are being invested to improve the understanding of human activities that are aggravating the climate change problem. Mere discourse on global warming ( See: http://www.justmeans.com/editorials/climatechange/5.html) is not enough for companies to combat this problem. The need is to implement ways through which more energy gets conserved and the rate of carbon emission also gets reduced.
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Kevin Long is the founder of Global Deaf Connection and the co-founder of Justmeans, a social utility site that helps companies to attract and ignite advocates of better business and good work related to Climate Change, sustainable development. Kevin has done significant business development work for both for-profit and non-profit organizations.
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