What does Project Management Life Cycle include?
Project Management Life Cycle recognizes a number of phases for the overall delivery. The Project Incubation/Feasibility Phase occurs prior to Project Starting Phase, then there is the Delivery (Commercial and Transformational) Phase and the Post – Project Evaluation Phase after the Standard Close out. While many PM practitioners and authorities limit the scope of ‘project management’ to the traditional start-plan-execute-closeout phases, projects begin their existence before the traditional start phase and their products or results continue to exist and must be evaluated after the projects are closed out.
What is Climate Change?
According to Timothy Kusky (2009), Climate change is a significant and lasting change in statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods ranging from decades to millions of years. Research has linked these changes to carbon emissions. There is also a growing consensus that human activities contribute significantly to the increasing concentration of carbon emissions in the atmosphere. These activities cover both individual and industrial activities and their associated energy use and this has raised a greater awareness and understanding of the environment and has also called for a change in energy use and other activities that emit carbon; to ensure that future economic development is achieved within economic, social and environmental limits. This is reflected in the UK by a legislative commitment to reduce Greenhouse Gas Production (GHG) by at least 80% by 2050 from 1990 levels. This places legal obligations on all sectors to reduce their emissions and define strategies to meet this obligation. Furthermore, carbon emissions reduction is now becoming a contractual requirement and a major consideration in tender selection process in both the UK and internationally, particularly for public sector clients. This emerging Key Performance Indicator (KPI)
What are greenhouse gases (GHGs)?
Greenhouse gases are those that affect the atmosphere. They act like a blanket or glass roof around the earth, trapping in heat that would otherwise escape to space – this is commonly referred to as the “greenhouse effect”. From the end of the last Ice Age about 10,000 years ago to the end of the 18th century, the levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere remained fairly constant and at a level sufficient to sustain life as we know it today. Since the Industrial Revolution 200 years ago, mankind has been releasing unprecedented amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, which trap more heat, amplifying the natural greenhouse effect. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the most significant greenhouse gas released by human activities and is emitted mostly from the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and natural gas. Other greenhouse gases include methane and nitrous oxide.
What is being done about Carbon Emission Reduction?
Currently in the UK, Carbon Emissions associated with business activities has moved from policy requirement to definitive legal responsibilities following the UK’s Climate Change Act (CCA) in 2008. Real and pressing need exists for a flexible and easy to use technique to enable businesses to assess their carbon emissions; following recent changes in legislation and regulations on environmental impacts of construction activities. The need has arose for a methodology that can offer businesses a “Carbon Life Cycle Assessment” (LCA) tool to identify emissions “hotspots” across its value chain and inform a carbon reduction hierarchy.
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