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Example 1:

Environmental ethics has become one of the major issues or area of concerns in the corporate world. The government is increasing pressure on the corporations to comply with environmental laws. There has been considerable increase in mass awareness regarding environment protection. Companies are also adopting various measures to ensure environmental sustainability.

However, the main ethical dilemma is that companies are often required to spend additional costs, time and efforts towards environmental management however this often make companies reluctant to engage in such activities to ensure short-term profitability.

Tesco is one of the leading retailers in the UK which has declared to reduce carbon footprints by 2020 (Chan, Wang and Raffoni, 2014). The company requires its suppliers to comply with its environmental standards and annual audits are conducted to check conformance of the suppliers. In addition, Tesco has started to print level for carbon footprints across all the packages used for its products to make customers aware of the same. The practice has encouraged other companies to engage in environmental sustainability activities.

Example 2:

Employees are considered as one of the major stakeholders in any company. Employees are concerned with delivering the desired products and services to the customers and therefore the profitability of any organization depends to a great extent on the efficiency of employees. Employees are directly related to daily business operations of a company.

A major environmental ethical issue in connection to the employees is the energy consumption. In other words, it is the employees who uses electricity and other forms of energy for daily activities. However, employees are often not concerned or aware about the impact of high energy consumption. Here, it is the responsibility of a company to create awareness among the employees regarding reducing energy consumption (Brammer, Hoejmose and Marchant, 2012). A large number of companies like Sainsbury, Zara and Tesco have started campaigns on reducing energy consumption by encouraging employees to make limited use of power and energies. Lights, Air-conditioners, computers and other electronic devices need to be switched off when not required. These measures can help in reducing energy consumption. This could also help in reducing utility bills.

Example 3:

It is difficult to think of environmental sustainability without focusing on trees. Here, it is important to understand that trees provide the necessary oxygen essential for a healthy living. In addition, trees also help in reducing pollution level. Trees cutting is considered as one of the major ethical issues in context of environment (Chan, Wang and Raffoni, 2014).

However, government in many developing countries has started to focus heavily on industrialization to improve economic condition of the nation. In addition, government of these developing nations like India, Srilanka, Bangladesh and others are also welcoming Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to accelerate the pace of economic growth. Industrialization helps in creating new employment opportunities for the people thereby improving standard of living (Christ and Burritt, 2013). However, such industrialization involves development of infrastructure and corporate buildings by cutting down trees. This is a key environmental ethics issue. Thus, the government of these companies need to adopt measures to develop solution that could help in overcoming the problem. Focus on planting more and more trees in alternative places could be a potential solution.

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