Sürdürülebilir Kalkınmanın Sağlanabilmesi İçin İşletmelerin Karbon Ayak İzini Azaltıcı Stratejilerinin Belirlenmesi

Year 2024, Volume: 4 Issue: 1, 4 - 15, 30.06.2024

Serhat Yüksel , Hasan Dinçer , Begüm Özduman

https://doi.org/10.58686/marufiktisat.1485405

Abstract

İşletmelerin karbon ayak izinin azaltılabilmesi için birçok strateji geliştirilebilir. Buna karşın, her bir iyileştirme maliyetlerin de artmasına sebebiyet vermektedir. Dolayısıyla, bu süreçte en fazla önem arz eden problemin tespit edilmesi gerekmektedir. Bu sayede, daha fazla önem arz eden konulara yönelik etkin stratejilerin belirlenebilmesi mümkün olabilmektedir. Bu durum da stratejiler daha düşük maliyetle uygulanabilmektedir. Bu çalışmanın amacı işletmenin karbon ayak izinin azaltılabilmesi için etkin ve verimli stratejilerin belirlenmesidir. Bu kapsamda, çalışmanın temel araştırma sorusu karbon ayak izinin azaltılabilmesi için işletmelerin uygulaması gereken öncelikli stratejilerinin hangileri olduğunun tespit edilmesidir. Bu amaca ulaşabilmek için 4 farklı kriter belirlenmiştir. Bu kriterlerin önem ağırlıklarının hesaplanabilmesi için DEMATEL yönteminden faydalanılmaktadır. Elde edilen analiz sonuçlarına göre enerji verimliliğinin sağlanması işletmelerin karbon ayak izinin minimize edilmesinde en fazla önem arz eden kriterdir. Çalışanlara eğitim verilmesi ve sürdürülebilir tedarik zinciri yönetimi de bu süreçte dikkate alınabilecek başka faktörlerdir. Buna karşın, yenilenebilir enerji kullanımı hususu ise diğer değişkenlere kıyasla çok daha düşük önem ağırlığına sahiptir. Bu sonuçlar dikkate alındığında, işletmelerin enerji verimliliğinin sağlanabilmesine daha fazla önem göstermeleri gerekmektedir. Bu durum karbon ayak izinin azaltılmasında çok yüksek maliyetlere katlanılmadan etkin stratejilerin geliştirilebilmesine olanak sağlamaktadır. Enerji verimliliğinin sağlanması bu amaca ulaşılabilmesinde çok kritik bir role sahiptir. Bu çerçevede, verimlilik sağlayacak makineler kullanılabilir ve bina yalıtımları daha iyi hale getirilebilir. Öte yandan, çevre dostu tedarikçiler ile çalışma da bu sürece önemli derecede katkı sağlayabilir. Böylece, işletmenin tedarik zinciri daha sürdürülebilir olabilir.

Keywords

Sürdürülebilir Kalkınma, Karbon Emisyonu, Karbon Ayak İzi, DEMATEL

Ethical Statement

Etik kurallara aykırı bir husus bulunmamaktadır.

Determining Strategies to Reduce the Carbon Footprint of Businesses to Ensure Sustainable Development

Abstract

Many strategies can be developed to reduce the carbon footprint of businesses. However, each improvement causes costs to increase. Therefore, the most important problem in this process needs to be identified. In this way, it is possible to determine effective strategies for more important issues. In this case, strategies can be implemented at a lower cost. The aim of this study is to determine effective and efficient strategies to reduce the carbon footprint of the business. In this context, the main research question of the study is to determine which are the priority strategies that businesses should implement in order to reduce their carbon footprint. To achieve this goal, four different criteria were determined. The DEMATEL method is used to calculate the importance weights of these criteria. According to the analysis results obtained, ensuring energy efficiency is the most important criterion in minimizing the carbon footprint of businesses. Training employees and sustainable supply chain management are other factors that can be taken into consideration in this process. On the other hand, the issue of renewable energy use has a much lower importance weight compared to other variables. Considering these results, businesses need to pay more attention to ensuring energy efficiency. This allows effective strategies to be developed to reduce carbon footprint without incurring very high costs. Ensuring energy efficiency has a very critical role in achieving this goal. In this context, machines that will provide efficiency can be used and building insulation can be improved. On the other hand, working with environmentally friendly suppliers can also contribute significantly to this process. Thus, the business's supply chain can be more sustainable.

Keywords

Sustainable Development, Carbon Emission, Carbon footprint, DEMATEL

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