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Carbon Emissions Management Engages All Stakeholders

By Daniel Stouffer

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Commerce and industry of all shapes and sizes, from a multinational corporation down to a regional or local enterprise, must fully embrace the concept of emissions management as it pertains to not only their internal operating procedures, but their existence within a chain of activities and processes necessary for them to function in the first place. Fully efficient emissions management requires captains of industry and CEOs to oversee a policy that strikes at the very heart of the company's existence.

The inevitability of climate change is now ingrained in people's psyche. Yet it seemed that it wasn't too long ago when scientists and politicians were ready to doubt the impact of toxic greenhouse gas emissions and to endlessly debate whether the concept of global warming was a serious issue or a butt of late-night comedy. A lot has happened in a relatively short space of time and governments have reversed a decline in the support of the concept into a proactive and dramatic race to save the environment.

Smart executives realize the potential. Failure to act or to be seen to act in an aggressive manner will likely attract significant governmental attention in the future. Regulate yourself or be regulated. Companies that take a stance to recognize that the problem pervades every element of their organization will help to pioneer the way forward.

To start off with, a business must "get its house in order" and rethink the most basic assumptions about their business processes. At this stage, long-term goals are the objective including the use of cleaner energy and fuels and/or the generation of cleaner power. The most senior levels of the organization must be held responsible for the overall implementation of its long-term goals and transparency must be shown at all times and through all levels.

Fundamentally, for a company to survive in the future it must align its very reason for existence with its willingness and ability to undertake emissions management and to meet and exceed significant goals.

In terms of arresting climate change and attempting to reverse the damage that has being done since the dawn of the industrial age, every man, woman and child will have to play their parts. As such, within a commercial entity, senior emissions management executives are charged with the significant task of engaging all of those individuals who make a difference, all the way down to the employee at the foot of the payroll. A culture of conservation must be developed and participation mandatory, not voluntary. In conservation, we all make a difference.

Emissions management executives must also take a long, hard look at the organization's supply chain. Pressure can be brought to bear upon suppliers who may not align with your revised mission statement. Like-minded organizations can also collaborate to achieve enhanced savings where otherwise they may not have.

In the name of addressing climate change there are new opportunities in the world of commerce and industry, where onetime rivals engage to share economies of scale, thereby cutting harmful emissions and going beyond the restrictions imposed by a traditional cloak of corporate secrecy.

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