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How Climate Change Is Expected to Transform Manufacturing
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How Climate Change Is Expected to Transform Manufacturing

Kate Magill
Supply Chain Dive, 2023
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Writing for Supply Chain Dive, Kate Magill reports on the impact climate change will have on global manufacturing over the coming years. As she recounts, experts predict intense heat, rising sea levels and catastrophic flooding in many places where factories manufacture crucial goods. Companies now have reasons based on clear risk management and crisis management standards to address their own emissions and environmental practices – and to plan ahead.

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Climate change has disrupted manufacturing with extreme weather phenomena, and it is expected to get worse.

Over the next two decades, according to the International Panel on Climate Change, the planet’s temperature is expected to rise by 2.7oF (1.5oC). This shift will lead to heat waves, rising sea levels, significant flooding, and more. Each of these phenomena is expected to have a severe impact on manufacturing. These shifts affect how factories work, how organizations plan for the future, and how workers will – or won’t – be able to do their jobs.

Excessive heat is one of the most significant issues facing manufacturers.

The United Nations Human Climate Horizons Project, published in cooperation with the UN Development Programme and the Climate Impact Lab, reports on the ways increasing heat will negatively affect productivity among laborers worldwide. It warns that ...

About the Author

Kate Magill is an editor at Supply Chain Dive. She is the former editor-in-chief for the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai and was a reporter for the Baltimore Sun Media Group.

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