The Importance of Logistics

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Figure 1: Sector Comparison of logistics costs and logistics investments1

The logistics has overall improved the cost, competence and consistency in the supply chain process.

Climatic Change takes place over millions to thousands of years. It is a statistical shift of weather and climate that takes place, changing the environment of the earth. When analyzed over hundreds of years, the climatic conditions have patches of climate having similar qualities and properties. The shift from one climate to another climate takes place slowly and gradually in order to maintain the ecological system. The biggest climatic change that is being anticipated these days and is mostly in the news is global warming. It is a shift towards a hotter climate due to the green house gases that are being reduced by the human beings.

According to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climatic change, it is defined as being a change in climate that can be linked directly or indirectly to some human activity that ends up changing the composition of the atmosphere. This is in addition to the variability of climate that takes place over a period of time. According to this definition, climatic change can be considered a synonym of global warming (Tim, 2006).

There are a number of causes for such a phenomenon to occur; one of the causes, green house gas emissions, carbon dioxide emissions are being reduced by human effort in an attempt to decrease the rate at which global warming is taking place, so that the ecological system on the Earth can sustain. Some of these causes are not in the hands of the humans; these may be changes in the solar radiation that may take place, or the movement of tectonic plates, deviation in the Earth’s orbit, volcanism etc. These factors are usually out of the hand of humans and hence the gradual shift in climatic change is occurring over the past years, escalated by human interventions (Martin, 2002)....
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