Why Carbon Emission is Turning to Central Focal Point for Organizations


Why Carbon Emission is Turning to Central Focal Point for Organizations

Setting the focus on the economic status and catching up with the latest trends, the organizations or even the commoners have missed noticing the ill-effect the environment is undergoing. We are busy to pace up in our race. However, the excessive usage and burning of fossil fuel resulted in a greenhouse gas induces climatic change making us realize the catastrophic environment we are presently in. Excessive carbon emission has triggered global warming. According to sources, 2019 has created a new record by making 36.44 billion metric tons of CO2 emissions. Alarmed with the scenario, organizations took sustainability seriously and focused on minimizing their contribution to carbon emission.  

Benefits of Opting Sustainability

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Focusing on sustainability also adds a lot of benefits to businesses. Firstly, it builds a strong corporate identity for the company. Secondly, the product or service being eco-friendly attracts a lot of customers. Being socially responsible, the customer prefers to use the products or services from the sustainable makers who are equally socially responsible. Thus, eco-friendly products get more attention over the regular ones in the market. The global survey conducted by Nielson reveals that close to 81 percent that marks four in five customers, strongly believe that sustainable firms would enhance our atmosphere. Alongside, considering minimizing carbon emission also turns to be cost-effective as well as improve productivity.

Opting for simple packaging results in cost-cutting. It also cuts down on harmful waste products and toxic by-products. Additionally, containment fees and safe disposals are eliminated alongside, the penalties and fines are also cut down through green manufacturing. Using non-toxic chemicals in the manufacturing process cuts down the water needed for manufacturing and waste disposal. Also, recycled water offers additional cost savings by reducing the usage of fresh groundwater. In addition to this, energy-efficient lighting is another method to minimize expenses. These lights have a longer span and need less electricity to run; solar panels are also ideal for reducing energy costs.

The carbon footprint is one of the crucial components of the ecological footprint as it is one competing demand for biologically productive space. However, the tonnes of carbon dioxide emission is expressed as the amount of productive land area needed to seize those carbon do oxide emissions. If there is no sufficient biocapacity allotted to absorb these emissions, the burning of fossil fuel resulting in a carbon footprint reported within the context of total ecological footprint. 

Solution:

Cloud Computing to Cut down CO2

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For every crisis, we tend to turn towards tech, which gives us a consoling solution. Thus, to cut down carbon emissions, organizations are employing cloud computing. The International Data Corp has predicted that cloud computing can minimize carbon emission by over one billion metric tons of CO2 from 2021 through 2024. The market research has also revealed that a key factor in cutting down the CO2 emission has been the aggregation of distinct enterprise data centres to facilitate a larger scale that could be more power-efficient servers and increase server utilization rates. The areas using coal for power generation, such as the Asia-Pacific region, could certainly get higher gains.  

Despite moving to cleaner power sources, minimizing wasted energy plays a vital role. Thus, the cloud data centres optimize the physical environment to reduce energy spent to cool the environment. Moving the workloads to places that take advantage of renewable power sources like wind and solar could also lower carbon emissions. On this, IDC comments, "The goal of an efficient datacenter is to have more energy spent on running the IT equipment than cooling the environment where the equipment resides." 

Organizations Marching towards Carbon-Neutrality

Hitachi ABB Power Grids in India has announced a few months back that it would achieve carbon-neutrality targets by 2030 in its own operations. To attain this, the firm has already inked power purchase agreements with some of the green power generators in Gujarat. With these contracts, the company is eyeing to turn 100 percent green energy by March 2022.

"To get closer toward a carbon-neutral future, means that we have to start by strengthening our own environmental, social and governance practices. Electricity will be the backbone of the entire energy system and we are working on electrified, reliable, and decarbonized operations and products. With solutions such as our revolutionary electric-bus fast-changing technology, we remain at the forefront of enabling the clean energy transition," says N Venu, MD & CEO, India and South Asia, Hitachi ABB Power Grids.

Apple has attained a 100 percent carbon-neutral global corporate operation. Every Apple device sold has a net-zero climate impact. This initiative further promises to achieve carbon neutrality for its entire business, manufacturing supply chain, and product life cycle by 2030. Furthermore, Apple details its idea to cut emissions by 75 percent by 2030 while developing innovative carbon removal solutions for the other 25 percent of its comprehensive footprint.

Tim Cook, CEO, Apple, says, "Businesses have a profound opportunity to help build a more sustainable future, one born of our common concern for the planet we share. The innovations powering our environmental journey are not only good for the planet they've helped us make our products more energy efficient and bring new sources of clean energy online around the world. Climate action can be the foundation for a new era of innovative potential, job creation, and durable economic growth. With our commitment to carbon neutrality, we hope to be a ripple in the pond that creates a much larger change." 

Google has been working on annual power consumption to be 100 percent renewable energy. However, presently the firm is going forward and aiming to achieve carbon-free operation by 2030.

The social media major, Facebook, has revealed that its operation was 94 percent sustainable in 2020 compared to 2017. It first committed to 100 percent renewable energy in 2011.

Coca-Cola, the beverage major, is relentlessly committed to sustainable agriculture and is working towards attaining sustainable sourcing of all key ingredients by 2020 and reducing its carbon footprint by 25 percent by 2025.

And this list of socially responsible firms has turned never-ending as every organization is aware of the ill-effects and is keen on implementing greener practices that are simple and beneficial. This initiative of the organization would not just improve its business but would benefit the overall environment.