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he focus of this course, by and large, has been on improving operational efficiency, reducing operating costs, as well as improving quality and enhancing customer experience

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he focus of this course, by and large, has been on improving operational efficiency, reducing operating costs, as well as improving quality and enhancing customer experience.
In contrast, this Final Project turns the attention to sustainability, with a special emphasis on the impact of industrial and commercial activities in the production of greenhouse effect (GHE) gases.

-This Forbes Magazine article (Links to an external site.)
- published last Summer contains a list of corporations with information on their carbon footprint reduction initiatives.
-In this article The Guardian (Links to an external site.)
-lists 20 firms behind one third of global carbon emissions. Not surprisingly, all are in the fossil fuel industry.
-In this article the World Shipping Council (Links to an external site.)
-provides emission levels produced by moving freight using different modes of transportation.
-In 2005 the European Union established the Emission Trading System (Links to an external site.)
-, a scheme to enable companies operating in EU member countries to reach their emission reduction targets in a cost-effective manner.Deliverable
You are to write the script for a podcast with your views, opinions, and recommendations on steps Operations Managers and other business leaders should consider taking to reduce the impact of business activities. Identify the tradeoffs associated to shifting freight transportation from air to ocean, relocation of production facilities to points closer to consumer markets, and other measures leading to reduced production of GHE gases.
This podcast is to last between 5 and 10 minutes. You can record the audio or submit the text.
Use the references above, as well as other sources you consider credible. Most publicly traded corporations publish sustainability reports describing their goals and initiatives. These may contain interesting metrics and initiatives to highlight