Carbon emissions

Carbon emissions

Yes, I firmly think that private sector organizations are leading the process of reducing carbon emissions. Private sector companies have a long-term vision to maintain environmental sustainability (Schandl et al., 2016).  Companies are trying to reduce the carbon footprint from the environment to ensure their approach for corporate social tasks. Companies are using the recycling method, reusing method, and eco-friendly supply chain method to reduce carbon emissions (Grand, 2016). On the contrary, initiatives taken by public sector companies are more inefficient than private organizations. For example,- private farming organizations in the U.K. have aimed to recycle 85% of their farming equipment (Singh et al., 2015).

On the contrary, the public sector organizations have planned to recycle only 47.25% of their farming equipment (Zhang et al., 2017). Apart from that, private companies in the U.K. have designed to reduce more than 10% carbon footprint from the supply chain by 2025, which can improve the air quality (Fawcett and Parag, 2017). However, unplanned supply chain management is the key reason behind the inefficiency of public sector supply chain management to reduce carbon emission. For example- Ford motor has reduced carbon footprint by 30% in the previous year and has aimed to reduce it to 45% by 2025 (Montag, 2015). However, the public sector companies have only managed to decrease 3.5% of carbon footprint to date from the supply chain (Zarin et al., 2016). Thus, actions must be taken with immediate priority to reduce carbon emission as much as possible from both the sectors.

Steps which can be taken to reduce carbon emission from both the sectors are as follows:

• Both public and private sector organizations should plan to minimize waste through purchasing items with less packaging and brining their container to the store (Tang et al., 2015).
• Private and public sector organizations need to plan more efficiently to increase the recycling process (Fawcett and Parag, 2017).
• Green supply chain management should be in-use in both private and public sector companies to reduce carbon emission (Schandl et al., 2016).

Reference List

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