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Thomas Long Thomas Long

Postgraduate Student

Telephone number: +44(0) 113 34 35572
Email address: eetbl@leeds.ac.uk
Room: 9.124

Biography

Project details

Project Title: Supply Chain Decarbonisation: Drivers, Barriers and Impacts on SME Suppliers

Supervisors: Dr. William Young & Dr. Samarthia Thankappan (University of York)

Funding: White Rose Studentship

Start date: 01/10/2009

Project Outline

The need to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as a result of current production and consumption patterns raises many challenges. Businesses and organisations are increasingly investigating the potential of tackling this issue through the management of their supply chains. Many large firms and organisations, independent of government policy and regulations, have already started work in this area, including requiring supplier emissions disclosures and launching joint initiatives to achieve reductions.

This project seeks to investigate the strategies that businesses and organisations that lead and control supply chains will employ towards GHG emission management and reduction. The drivers and barriers to their engagement with this issue are to be identified and explored, as well as the role that government and the third sector can play, both now and in the future.

Although offering many opportunities, this phenomenon also raises questions over the impact of supply chain decarbonisation strategies on Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs). Through case studies of supply chain leaders and their SME suppliers, the project will explore and analyse the impacts of differing supply chain decarbonisation strategies on SME suppliers, including those of both public and private sector organisations.

Areas of interest:

  • Supply Chain Decarbonisation.
  • Corporate Responsibility.
  • Supply Chain Management Business Impacts.
  • Sustainable Development.
  • Futures Research.

Business & Organisations for Sustainable Societies Group (BOSS)

Qualifications

  • BSc Politics with Economics, University of Bath
  • MSc Sustainable Development, University of Surrey