LOW-CARBON BUSINESS PROJECT

The initial stages of managing a low-carbon business project



The initial stages of managing a low-carbon business project

Introduction

As countries increasingly look to create lower carbon economies, there is no doubt that major challenges lie ahead. However, developing solutions to these challenges will also create massive business opportunities for low-carbon innovations and technology, with a recent study predicting that the global market for low carbon technologies could reach £2,000 billion per annum by 2030. The carbon trading does not achieve urgent and necessary cuts in emissions to prevent climate change catastrophic, they fail to develop incentives promised in Investment in new technology to low-carbon, and they are likely to develop a dangerous approach, free from any form of strategy, the transition to a low-carbon economy. Systems of low-carbon project based on compensation, a controversial mechanism, inefficient and increasingly discredited. They can also lead to a repetition of the subprime crisis, and are a distraction from the absence of measures taken by developed countries to tackle the problem of change climate (Stern, 2006).

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions to prevent dangerous climate change is one of the most pressing challenges facing humanity. The probability of maintaining the increase in global average temperature below the critical threshold diminishes quickly. This would require reaching a peak first, before beginning a decline in emissions world by 2015. Developed countries are responsible for the richest three-quarters of emissions, although they represent only 15% of the world population. They have an obligation legal and moral make the most significant reductions and to provide countries development funds and technology needed to offset climate impacts and promote clean development. However, developed countries have largely failed to take reasonable steps to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases or to provide such funds, if necessary to developing countries. In this context, carbon trading is increasingly emphasized, as tool to address climate change. Proponents of such a system supporting it helps reduce emissions, and at low cost, it stimulates investment in infrastructure in low-carbon and it helps to generate funds for countries developing the fight against climate change.

Discussion

The significance of the initial stages of low-carbon business project is not just to raise awareness amongst public and private Cornish organisations about the role of carbon and its effects on the environment as a whole. The importance of connecting carbon with daily activities and the role public procurement plays in addressing this is also fundamental. Using Action Learning Sets to raise collective awareness of the need for leadership around carbon reduction, and Lean Mapping Workshops to identify specific parts of the supply chain where activity within and between firms can be improved, the project has demonstrated that sustainability and more efficient business practices are not divergent but closely linked.

One of the key learning outcomes of the project so far is that public organisations are still at a stage of trying to understand the many implications - be they strategic, organisational, operational, financial or legal of adopting a low carbon procurement ...