Tag: Climate Change

How Can Facilities Management Help Tackle Climate Change!

Climate Impacts on Logistics and Supply Chain

There is a growing public recognition that climate change is no longer simply a theory and that its effects are beginning to be noticed around the world. Many people will have watched in horror last year when the devastating floods hit large parts of Bangladesh.

They resulted in the displacement of millions of people and a tragic loss of life on a scale that is rarely witnessed. Many scientific experts attribute this flooding to the impacts of global warming and climate change.

As predicted, climate change is beginning to drive more extreme patterns of weather, which can cause widespread disruption and suffering.

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Climate Impacts on Logistics and Supply Chain

The Supply Chain Carbon Footprint Reduction Strategy! (Infographic)

Climate change and the freight transportation industry are very much intertwined. The freight industry generates eight to ten percent of the world’s carbon emissions, making it one of the biggest carbon polluters on Earth. In turn, climate impacts create secondary effects from infrastructure damage all the way down to micro-scale problems like surety bond claims. 

It’s critical that logistics professionals understand this cycle, as well as the steps to breaking it. By seeing the complex and interconnected ways in which freight transportation and climate change interact, we can analyze ways to stop the process before it’s too late. 

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