Reducing The Carbon Footprint in the Supply Chain

Abstract

There has been a lot of human intervention with nature due to industrialisation leading to an increased degradation over time. Hence, Industries across the globe are now trying to reduce their impact by adopting Green Supply Chain management or environment friendly management principles. The world faces the climate change due to global warming because of increase in carbon level in the environment. The Green Supply Chain approach seeks to minimise a product or service’s ecological impact. Therefore this deals with the entire life cycle of the product, since each phase can influence the environment negatively. As a result we have to consider a closed loop model instead of the common linear model of the classical Supply Chain. In the centre of the product life cycle we see the green design. The reason is that industry needs to bear in mind the environmental impact of the future product during the design stage itself. At this early stage itself the organisation needs to trade-off between the investments required and the reduction in the carbon footprint. This study aims at providing organisations with a framework to capture, measure, monitor, and improve their carbon emissions in the supply chain.

Keywords: Carbon Emissions, Green Supply Chain

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