Green Supply Chain Design Under Emission Trading Scheme

Abstract

In response to climate regulations and customers’ requirements, companies are now realizing that they will have to pay for their emissions under business as usual strategies. Emission trading scheme (ETS) was adopted and is going to take great effect in the way of cutting emissions. Hence, supply chain is faced with new challenges toward a sustainable business development. How to optimize the supply chain across all its stages to minimize their carbon footprint under ETS builds the main topic of this dissertation. The impact of ETS on sustainable development of supply chain is going to be analyzed at first and a supply chain-ETS is proposed to be implemented as a trial to test how companies along supply chain cooperate with each other based on common resource collaboration management.