...2014 Making It Clear The climate of Earth has been a topic of discussion for ages. As time goes on the question about climate that seems to recur the most is: “Why does the world climate change?” Today that question has turned into a matter of debate on whether or not global climate change is a natural process or it is caused primarily by humans. While many people have tried to account reasons that humans cause climate change, most theories don’t gain support. Some ideas though, such as those concluded by “renowned” scientists gain ground based on actual data gathered in the field and not just theories. One thing all those scientists have in common though that makes them credible is that they have gathered information to support their claims. That data is used all around the world as a base for governments and agencies to...
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...Supply Chains going Green Name Institutional affiliation Date The discussion of supply chains going green has become a bone of contention among major stakeholders in the industry. The discussion started after the Carbon disclosure project released a report indicating that supply chains contributed greatly to the emission of carbon in the atmosphere. Due to the report, pressure has been mounting on the administration of supply chains to implement strategies on their carbon management. Analysts have however stated that there are various pros and cons of the supply chains going green, which have to be considered in the implementation of carbon management strategies. This paper analyzes the pros and cons of supply chains going green. Advantages of supply chains going green Improvement in financial performance over time There are various benefits associated with companies going green. One of the benefits of supply chains going green is the positive impact that it has on the financial performance of the supply chain. Despite the myth that cutting carbon emissions increases expense, there is evidence that cutting on carbon emissions has a great impact on cutting expenses of the supply chains. Through a systematic approach to the manner in which the supply chains operate, it is possible for the administration to analyze how carbon management strategies will cut costs for their organization. Through empirical evidence from...
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...Science of Uncertainty and Climate Science Even with researches on global warming starting as early as 1965, global warming is still hotly debated. At the present, almost all scientist acknowledge that the earth is warming up mainly due to human activities, but the public still somehow remain skeptical (Oreskes 169). Now that why global warming is even worth debating is a question for another day, but here we will discuss how the appeal in climate science as well as clarifying the several facts Bret Stephens gravely mistaken. In the scientific community, Hempel once suggested an idea in his 1965 essay, that no evidence can establish a hypothesis with certainty, and believing in a hypothesis will make one suspect to “inductive risk”, that is,...
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...The weather is changing and the scientists discovered that the climate is changing too. The climate is the average weather over a period of time. Climate will not stop changing if the factors that impact on are happening. The climate change is defined as one of the environmental problem. The climate is change in the global level by the number of heat which enter to the system or the number of the heat which comes out of the system. The climate change will happen if the factors that change the amount of the heat or the energy that enter or comes out happened. There are many indicators which prove the climate change and which we know through that the climate change is happening. Noticed increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, snow and ice melt, and the rising of the sea level. Responses to climate change come from planet and animals throughout observing the warmth and the natural and managed environment. Climate change is made by human activities and the nature. The warming that happening know is caused by the human activity like; fossil fuels burning process and the transformation for forestry and agriculture land. The human influence on the climate system have increased significantly and started while the industrial revolution time. Carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, is the command product of fossil fuel calcinations. Since the industrial revolution the overall effect of human activities was a warming effect. This effect was due to the release of carbon dioxide...
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...Climate Change and its Effects on Accounting Practices William Conder Accounting 5233 November 26, 2013 Abstract in Climate change is a subject that invokes many different opinions and reactions from different people in different regions. Although there is a general consensus in the scientific and environmental advocate communities as to that the worldwide climate is changing, specifically warming, and that the activities of man are the primary cause, as for the degree of change and the possible effects, there is anything but a consensus. There is a fairly new concept that is taught in many businesses, colleges, and universities called the triple bottom line. This is referring to the three things that businesses should concern themselves with and strive to achieve excellence in if they wish to be sustainable; they are “profit, people, and the planet” (Elkington, 1995). The purpose of this research is to find out and explore some different ways that businesses today are utilizing good sustainability practices, and dive into some other areas like accounting for carbon emissions, and also seeing how accounting for predicted outcomes might work in the business environment. The environment affects us all and any sort of change, contingency, or preparation has to be accounted for, so this work is designed to find out how it is being done, and things that could be done to improve business. The triple bottom line The age old practice of businesses being concerned strictly with...
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...for everybody. Provisioning resources, which are the products obtained from ecosystems that have a diversity includes food. The growth of crops, spices, and meats and vegetables. Medicine which is naturally grown in the wild that is of use to humans and wild animals alike, as well as raw material such as lumber, and fertilizer. For example, Waste eaters like the dung beetle help to turn animal waste into organic material that can be reused by plants, which will further the production and growth of plants, which would be eaten as food for animals and turned back into waste to start the cycle all over again. Regulating services which are the benefits obtained from the regulation of ecosystems includes the regulation of carbon intake and output by plants and neighboring animals, and that also regulates climate. Waste decomposition and detoxification, and pest...
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...colonization of new areas, the planet we view through our eyes experiences a constant metamorphosis. However, the most drastic change may be one not visible to human eyes. Global warming, also known as the rapid acceleration of climate change through increasing global temperatures, has been an environmental issue since it was first predicted in 1970s by Stephen Schneider, while studying the effect of greenhouse gases and suspended particulate material on the climate for NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies for his post doctorate research. His article, “Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Aerosols: Effects of Large Increases on Global Climate”, was featured in the New York Times because of the consequences he listed in his paper, drawing national attention to the subject. However, despite the evidence compiled in his findings and those of various scientific research institutes such as the National Academy of Sciences of the United States and the Royal Society of Britain, global warming remains an issue that continues to be debated. In this paper, I will examine H.R. 1380: New Alternative Transportation to Give Americans Solutions Act of 2011, a bill in the House of Representatives, to determine the fundamental issues it hopes to solve, its origins, and the chances of enactment. H.R. 1380 is a bill that faces considerable hardships due to the fact that it faces a pluralist society, a majoritarian Congress, and is highly controversial. H.R. 1380: New Alternative Transportation to...
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...IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE POLICIES ON THE GROWTH OF THE INDIAN ECONOMY Submitted by: Kriti Bhardwaj Date: 1st December, 2010 1 ABSTRACT The most contentious global debate today is the obligations of the developed and the developing countries to take steps to reduce their carbon footprint. Though climate change is a danger for all countries-developed and developing alike, the quantum of responsibility for mitigating climate change is a debatable issue. There is a perceived divide between the obligations of the two worlds in which our planet is divided. The source of virtually all past emissions i.e. the developed world has a greater responsibility to take steps to reduce their carbon emissions substantially and help in stabilizing the environment which they disturbed to a large extent. This is the reason why they are subjected to binding targets of reducing their emissions by a set amount in all international agreements. However, the developing world is gearing towards development at a very fast pace and all development and industrialization pre-supposes the need of higher emissions. Due to this, the emission levels of this part of the world are bound to increase even more rapidly. Mitigating climate change in developing countries poses a fundamental challenge. For developing nations as a whole...
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...institutions in the world today see climate change as the greatest threat to the environment and world stability that has ever been faced. The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a UN sponsored body of over 2,000 scientists, has come to the conclusion that worldwide temperatures are likely to rise on average by 2-5 degrees Celsius in the next 100 years. They admit that it is perfectly possible that the rise could be greater than this, but even if it is contained within these boundaries, the effects will be disastrous. Sea-levels will rise, swamping heavily populated areas such as Bangladesh and the Netherlands. The increase in temperature will rapidly kill what rainforest is left after the deforestation that has already occurred, leading to a further massive release of carbon into the atmosphere from the dead trees. Weather will fluctuate wildly, leading to a massive increase in natural disasters, and bringing diseases such as malaria as far north as Britain. Facing such a global catastrophe, it might be thought that it would be in everyone’s best interests to do something about it. Unfortunately, the best agreement that the world’s leaders have managed to come up with is the Kyoto Protocol, which commits the nations of the world to a 5.2% reduction of carbon dioxide levels, based on 1990 levels. The IPCC has concluded that, at the very least, a 60% cut in carbon dioxide emissions is needed immediately to avoid the worst effects of climate change. Needless to say, based...
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...One of the aspects most commonly talked about is that of global warming. “Global warming occurs when carbon dioxide (CO2) and other air pollutants and greenhouse gasses collect in the atmosphere and absorb sunlight and solar radiation that have bounced off the earths surface” (MacMillan, 2016). This radiation from the sun is then trapped, causing the Earth to heat up and experience rising temperatures. This type of climate change is predicted to have a significant impact on the planet with a significant increase in air pollution as a result. With the effects of global warming, many researchers are predicting that the rising temperatures will cause pollution levels to rise, not only in the Central Valley but in other areas throughout the state as well. If air pollution increases, the amount of health issues will most likely increase as well. “With climate change, days will be hotter and that will amp up ground-level ozone smog pollution and increase the number of bad air days” (Howard, 2014). Regulations on air pollution from the federal and state levels will most likely become stricter and could affect the production and operations of farmers throughout the...
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...Resource Practice 1.1 - Describe the internal and external factors that impact on the employment relationship There are many factors that can impact on the employment relationship, both internal and external. External Factors - The availability of alternative jobs is a external factor of the labour market and can impact the employment relationship due to staff being head hunted by other companies, they know that they can easily find a new job should they not be enjoying their current job role. - The general economic climate is another external factor however it relates to the product market. This can affect the employment relationship as there will be a drop in demand of products should the economic climate be low resulting in less work, meaning redundancies may be made when there is less money coming in and organisations can no longer afford to keep all of their staff. However should there be a rise in demand of products due to the economic climate being strong then this will result in more work. - A positive external factor is social impact. Where by the retirement age is increasing each year, organisations area able to retain a older workforce resulting in a higher retention of specialised knowledge and skills. Internal Factors - The size of the organisation will impact on the employment relationship as the larger the organisation the greater room there is for career progression, however the smaller the organisation there will be a lack of career progression. ...
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...We all live on this Earth, it’s all of our jobs to care for it, but the current level of progress we are making on reducing fossil fuel emissions is remarkably embarrassing. No matter how much faith I place in younger generations, the current divisiveness of this issue has left me far from hopeful for the future. The fact that climate change has become a partisan issue is the number one thing preventing change from occurring, in my eyes. According to Regan Patrick’s The Politics of Global Climate Change, the rate of Republican concern for global warming is hardly increasing, no matter what age they are. (Regan, 2015) I can only hope that the voices of opposers of burning fossil fuels grow loud enough that those who support the burning of fossil...
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...compensation for the spill victims which may cost them billions of dollar. The opportunity here is they can set and impose a new standard on a health and safety regulation to every of their operation in order to prevent this incident to happen again and make a new precedent to the other oil industries thus to regain their reputation back. Since UK has reported the usage on motor vehicles has been reduced and the usage of train has been increased, therefore, BP will be facing threat on low demand on oil. 1.4 Technological Factors A new technology called fracking has been introduced in extracting gas by breaking underground rock. By using this new technology, it will increase the supply of gas and double the amount. However, the threat with this new technology is the price of gas may reduce, due to more supply. BP can take this opportunity to invest this new technology in order to compete with the other industries but the down side is, they need to employ new high skilled workers to use this new technology. Besides that, BP can invest to a greener technology such as of biofuels and wind power. 1.5 Ecological Factors In the United Kingdom (UK) the number of usage of motor vehicles have been drop and more usage on train. This shows that UK may imposed a high tax on carbon dioxide emission usage in order to stabilize the climate. As for the fracking technology, the set back of this technology is, it will cause disaster to the nature as it can pollute local water and may erupt small...
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...for a supervisor to provide coaching and mentoring. Subordinates with potential are being placed with senior personnel for guidance and development. The policy for fraternization is un clear fraternization is defined differently from person from person. Dr. Edward Kwapong said fraternization is the very close affiliation with another worker from the workplace that extend way beyond working hours. Discuss Fraternization In The Workplace (July 15, 2014). According to army regulation fraternization is only frowned upon when it brings discredit upon an organization When provided with examples of how some may view fraternization, one might think of the circumstances and understand why organizations would try to enforce this standard. Is it to protect the workforce, or is it set to keep Soldiers from having a relationship outside of the workplace. Whether it is professional or friendly. Here is an example of how fraternization is described a Private First Class (PFC) Jones heard about a chance for a promotion within the unit and needed a recommendation. . Knowing a current supervisor was acquaintance with the hiring authority, PFC Jones ask the supervisor out for some drinks a couple nights a week and he agreed to write a letter of recommendation. In this situation, PFC Jones used charm and...
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...DBA 7035-Business, Government & Society Reflection Paper This week we cover the Antitrust Laws, Regulation, and Environmental Management and Sustainability. I thought these were very interesting topics this week. Many of us are not aware of the different laws and regulations that are out there to protect us from big businesses. When the populist movement came about in the 1870s a number of states enacted statues to regulate economic activity and control the exercised of economic power (Baron, 2010). The main concerns issues in the antitrust laws were abuse and power. Monopolies were to blame because they had tons of control over the prices in the market. The larger the number of firms required to collude, the more difficult it is to prevent cheating and defection (Baron, 2010). Consumers argue that these companies were taking advantage of customers. The Sherman Act, Clayton Act and Federal Trade Commission Act are all part of the antitrust Laws. The markets allow people to exchange goods and services and the end result could be a profit or a loss. Someone has to regulate the markets and this is done through a public process that is open and allows participation by interested. Regulation includes controlling process, setting price floors, Regularizing employment practices, limiting ownership and many others. Trying to achieve the benefit of environmental management and sustainability can be very expensive. The government and many businesses recognized...
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