The role of supply chain management in implementing organizational efforts to reduce carbon emissions in transport sector.

The role of supply chain management in implementing organizational efforts to reduce carbon emissions in transport sector.

 Introduction and background.

Supply chain management department of every organization has a critical role to play in ensuring that carbon emission is mitigated by formulating and implementing proper and appropriate carbon emission strategies.  Like any other company operating within the transport sector, the supply chain management of FedEx, Trans UK, Rodgers Transport, Road Haulage UK, Maxi Haulage Limited and TELLS Group Companies has a critical role to play in ensuring the mitigation of carbon emission. These companies are the world’s largest companies operating within the transport sector. Environmental conservation has become an issue of concern in the recent past. Carbon is one of the leading air pollutant (Solaymani 2019. pp.989-1001). Excess carbon in the atmosphere is very harmful due to its cause of global warming. It is therefore important that the main aim of every operational organization should be to try to rate the of carbon emitted into the air at all cost.

Transport sector is the main carbon emitting sector. If the sector can formulate and implement proper strategies that aid at mitigation of carbon emission, the propotion of carbon emission into the atmosphere can significantly reduce by over fifty percent. This would save people from the harmful effect of excess carbon in the atmosphere (Solaymani 2019. pp.989-1001). This essay critically duels in and out of the issues concerning the role of supply chain management in implementing organizational effort to reduce carbonand its compounds emission into the atmosphere within the transport sector (Larsen, Solli and

Pettersena 2012 pp.354-363).

Purpose of the essay.

The main question answered in this essay is the role of supply chain management of FedEx, Trans UK, Rodgers Transport, Road Haulage UK, Maxi Haulage Limited and TELLS Group Companies in implementing organizational efforts to reduce carbon emissions in transport sector.

Alongside this main question, several carbon emission problems are also answered. Such questions answered in this essay include:

1. What is carbon emission in transport sector?
2. what results carbon emission in transport sector?
3. What are the effects of carbon emission?
4. What is the current level of carbon emission in transport sector?
5. what are the ways to mitigate carbon emission in the transport sector?
6. Who should be responsible in formulating and implementing organizational effort in reducing the volume of carbon emitted into the atmosphere within the transport sector?
7. What are some of the future carbon emission prevention measures that should be put in place in transport sector?

 

 

Discussion

The supply chain management of FedEx, Trans UK, Rodgers Transport, Road Haulage UK, Maxi Haulage Limited and TELLS Group Companies plays a key role in formulating and implementing an organization’s effort to help curb the emission of carbon. Working towards reduction of the amount of carbon and its compounds emitted into the atmosphere is a very crucial role in order to mitigate the adverse effects likely to be caused by presence of excessive carbon and its compounds into the atmosphere (Onat and Kucukvar, 2020 p.109783). The supply chain management of FedEx, Trans UK, Rodgers Transport, Road Haulage UK, Maxi Haulage Limited and TELLS Group Companies can;

– Supply chain management can mitigate excessive carbon emission by ensuring that they comply with environmental pollution laws and regulations set by the government that aids at the reduction in the volume of carbon emitted into the air.

– Advice the entire organization on how excessive carbon emission can be reduced. This can be done by conduction of seminars that creates awareness concerning the harmful effects of excessive carbon emission into the atmosphere.

– Formulate laws within the organization which regulate the amount of carbon and carbon compounds emitted into the atmosphere.

-Enforce the environmental formulated laws and regulations by the government aim at reducing the amount of carbon and its compounds emitted into the atmosphere within the transport sector.

-Moral persuasion where supply chain department can make players in the transport sector understand the negative results of carbon emission. Such moral persuasion can result to reduction in the amount of carbon emitted.

 

1. Carbon emission in transport sector.

Carbon emission is the release of carbon in the atmosphere. Reduction in the carbon emission constitutes the taking of the steps that help to curb the quantity of the carbon emitted into the atmosphere. Excess carbon emission into the atmosphere is very harmful hence risking human life.

 

2. Causes carbon emission in transport sector.

The main cause of carbon emission in transport industry is the burning of the petroleum fuel in the engine in order to drive the vessel. All most all transport means depend on petroleum fuel except for some few underdeveloped electric cars that uses electricity and negligible number of solar driven cars. When petroleum fuel is burnt in the engine, large volume of carbon is emitted through the exhaust in form of dark-grey smoke.

 

 

3. The effects of carbon emission.

 

• Greenhouse effect.

Greenhouse effect is a situation whereby terrestrial radiation is restrained from escaping into the outer space of the earth. The ozone layer should thus be protected at all costs due to its crucial role in harmful rays’ regulation. Carbon and its compounds if excess into the atmosphere are known to block the terrestrial radiation from escaping. This results to the greenhouse effect where the earth remains warmer with higher temperatures.

 

• Wearing out of the ozone layer.

Ozone layer is a very important layer covering the planet earth. The layer plays a very important role in filtering out the very harmful radiations such gamma, betta and ultraviolet rays of the sun from entering

in the atmosphere of the planet earth. These rays are very harmful hence risking human life if excess into

the atmosphere. Carbon and its compounds is well known to be frequently reacting with this ozone layer

wearing it out or making it thinner hence weaker resulting to more of these harmful radiations entering

into the atmosphere of the planet earth. (Onat and Kucukvar, 2020 p.109783).

 

4. The current level of carbon emission in transport sector.

Since transport sector is among the busiest and broad sectors of the world, it contributes to over fifty

percent of all carbon and its harmful compounds emitted into the atmosphere. Currently, the amount of

the carbon emitted is still high (Liu, and Ji 2021 p.120178). Players in the transport sector and other

stakeholders are therefore advised to take key responsibilities and prioritize mitigation of release of

carbon into the atmosphere in order to curb the negative effects of the presence of excess carbon into

the atmosphere. 

 

5. Who is responsible in formulating and implementing organizational effort in reducing the volume of carbon emitted into the atmosphere within the transport sector.

 

Since environmental conservation is a global issue affecting everyone, all of those working in the transport sector should be held responsible in working hard to ensure that the quantity of carbon and its compounds released into the atmosphere is reduced. Transport vessels manufactures, drivers, pilots, captains and even conductors and plane attendants should perform any role they can in ensuring that as less as possible is the amount of carbon and its compounds is emitted into the atmosphere (Onat and Kucukvar, 2020 p.109783). Fuel refiners should ensure that they process and sell only purely refined fuels that burn with as less smoke as possible thus producing less carbon. Dirty fuels are known to burn with more soot thus releasing more carbon into the atmosphere relative to the pure fuels.

 

6. Future carbon emission prevention measures that supply chain management can formulate and implement in transport sector.

To curb the negative impacts of excess carbon and its compounds in the atmosphere, it is key that carbon emission prevention measures be formulated and implemented with the immediate effect. Formulation and implementation of these steps should be a joint action that involves car users, car manufactures and assemblers, petroleum refineries, government as well as the supply chain management of the all organizations operating within the most active transport sector. Some of these steps that FedEx, Trans UK, Rodgers Transport, Road Haulage UK, Maxi Haulage Limited and TELLS Group Companies can take are:

 

1. Avoid the use of leaded fuels.

Lead is normally added in small quantity into the petroleum fuel to act as an anti-nocking agent. However, leaded fuels burn with a lot of soot that results into the release of more carbon and its compounds into the atmosphere relative to when unleaded fuel is used. Adoption of use of unleaded fuel thus results to less carbon emission. Tough rules and regulations should be imposed by the government that ensues that unleaded and pure fuels are refined and sold. The refineries found guilty of refining dirty unleaded fuels should be arraigned in court of law and heavily charged to act as an example and scare away the potential dirty fuel refiners. Their operational licenses should be as well withdrawn.

 

1. Adoption of use of electric and solar driven cars.

Solar and Electricity constitutes the cleanest world’s energy sources. If the use of solar and electricity driven cars is adopted, amount of carbon emitted into the atmosphere would reduce significantly. Both local and international financial institutions should invest in financing the electric and solar car and train manufactures in order to enable them manufacture and assemble many of the cars and trains. Government should also chip in and subsidize the manufacturers to enable them reduce manufacturing costs thus sell cheaply to the public. They should as well be tax waived.

 

1. Electrostatic precipitation process should be applied in the car, ship, train and airplane exhausts.

Electrostatic precipitation is a modern chemistry development that aids at mitigation of air pollution as a result of emission of harmful gasses and their compounds into the atmosphere. In electrostatic precipitation, the inner wall of the chimney of transport vessels through which the harmful gas is to be passed, is charged oppositely to the charges on the gas being released. (De Oliveira and Guerra 2021 pp.422-438). Since unlike charges attracts one another, the harmful gas particles are likely to attach themselves on the inner walls of the chimney. The attached gas particles are then removed and disposed off properly rather than releasing them into the atmosphere where they can cause a lot of anticipated harm to human life. (De Oliveira and Guerra 2021 pp.422-438).  If electrostatic precipitation is applied in car, ship, train and airplane exhausts, the quantity of carbon and its compounds emitted into the atmosphere would greatly be reduced within the transport sector.

1. Proper servicing and maintenance of engines.

Properly serviced and maintained engines results to complete combustion of fuel which leads to the release of less carbon and its compounds into the atmosphere as opposed to less maintained and serviced engines which results to incomplete combustion of fuel hence releasing much of the carbon and its compounds into the atmosphere. (Onat and Kucukvar, 2020 p.109783).

Rule should as well be adopted that scripts off older cars from the roads. These older cars have old inefficient engines that does not completely burn the fuel hence resulting to much release of carbon and its harmful compounds into the atmosphere.

Conclusion.

Transport is among the most active sectors of the world. Air pollution is a global problem that fighting should involve all sectors. Carbon and its compounds is a major well known air pollutant that contributes to a significant proportion of all greenhouse gasses. Presence of excess carbon and its compounds in the atmosphere is likely to risk human life in many ways.  Supply chain management of every operational organization has a critical role in ensuring that organizational effort to reduce carbon and its compounds emission in the atmosphere is accomplished (Solaymani 2019. pp.989-1001).

In this essay, several carbon and its compounds release into the atmosphere mitigation factors as well as the crucial roles that should be played by supply chainmanagement of FedEx, Trans UK, Rodgers Transport, Road Haulage UK, Maxi Haulage Limited and TELLS Group Companies in reducing the emission has been richly discussed. The players within the transport sector are thus advised to formulate and implement the discussed steps that should be taken in order toreduce the release of carbon and its compounds into the atmosphere. (Larsen, Solli and Pettersena 2012 pp.354-363). Roles to be played by car manufactures, petroleum refineries, as well as supply chain management has been fully elaborated in the essay.

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