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Climate Change and Your Business
climate change impacts business as much as business impacts the environment . While it’s easy to believe the environment is someone else’s problem, the reality is it’s all our responsibility. How can your business mitigate climate change risks and costs?
While it’s easy to believe the environment is someone else’s problem, the reality is it’s all our responsibility. After all, climate change impacts business as much as business impacts the environment.
Ever increasing consumption of fossil fuels, deforestation, pollution and a myriad of other contributing factors are having significant negative effects on the planet in ways that will affect all of us, including changing weather patterns, drying inland areas, increased precipitation and severe storms on coastal areas. These changes are also having an expanding impact on rising business costs.
But why change?
There are a number of compelling reasons to act. As a minimum, there are legislative issues that may affect your business. At the same time, being environmentally aware and sustainable can provide a significant return on investment through cost savings in as little as 12 months, and a marketing edge over your competitors, as well as contributing to an environment we all want to live in. |
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HOW CAN YOUR BUSINESS MITIGATE CLIMATE CHANGE RISKS?
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The addition of waste materials to landfill not only contributes to green house gas emissions through decomposition and transport but presents a potentially wasted capital investment. Waste audits are conducted to identify the efficiency and output of waste streams within an organisation’s greater waste profile, and result in minimised waste output and overhead costs.
The savings harnessed by Waste Audits can be realized immediately and be of significant value. The minimisation of an organisation’s waste can also improve its public image and increase the efficiency of business units.
- Minimising the impact of business upon the environment
- Reducing the amount of costly wasted materials
- Reducing the cost of waste management and disposal
- Reducing the amount of residual waste destined for landfill
- Optimising the effectiveness of recycling efforts and identifying new opportunities for recycling
- Meeting regulatory and other requirements
- Exercising corporate responsibility
- Meeting key stakeholder and customer expectations of ethical company behaviour
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