Green Logistics Consultants Group

VISION - STRATEGY - GOALS - PROCEDURES - KPIs - VISIBILITY - CHANGE - REPORTING - ENGAGEMENT - FOR A SUSTAINABLE LOGISTICS

Do you know the energy needed to transport your goods from China to Europe or the USA?
           ______ Have you any idea about CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions of your supply chain?
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Did you investigate all alternative transport modes for your freight transport?
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Do you know the impact of collaborative supply chains
on your cost and on the environment?
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Do you have a complete emission inventory and reporting system?
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Do you know what legislation is on the way?
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How will your supply chain
be affected by higher energy costs?
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Do you have a green procurement policy?

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Do you assess the vulnerability of your supply chain to climate change?

Introduction

Road congestion, urban mobility, local air pollution and the need for CO2 reductions and energy conservation will have a dramatic impact on the future supply chain of all industries. Companies will be forced to reduce the impact on the environment of their supply chains and will have to develop sustainable supply chain strategies in the coming months and years.

The Green Logistics Consultants Group - a global group of leading experts

Realising environmental objectives can be done in synergy with other strategic and financial goals. A green logistics or green supply chain policy often reduces logistics costs as it focuses on reducing energy use and on improving the total supply chain. But it is also true that some economic trends, such as a shift to more offshore manufacturing and more frequent JIT deliveries, have a negative impact on the ecological performance of supply chains.

Whatever the effect on costs, it is obvious that environmental performance indicators, the adoption of a green logistics policy and effective green supply chains measures will become important aspects of total supply chain management in the near future. Shippers and retailers as well as transport companies, logistics service providers, airport and port operators will have to integrate environmental values into their decision making processes. A well-informed emission reduction strategy will have to be developed by companies to meet future requirements.

The Green Logistics Consultants Group is an international collaborative network of supply chain consultants with a general or specific expertise in areas where companies or local and national governments can improve the cost and environmental performance of their supply chains and transport infrastructure.

Our supply chain consultants support companies, authorities, governments and international organisations to develop a green logistics policy or sustainable supply chain and to realise an energy- and eco-efficient supply chain and transport infrastructure. We help companies and authorities assess how future supply chains will be affected by climate change, so they can adapt their supply chain strategies in function of climate change impacts and risks.

Within the Green Logistics Consultants Group, we develop and exchange environmental supply chain information, guidebooks and calculation tools. We have access to the latest knowledge, data, best practices and tools to investigate, measure, propose, implement and evaluate ambitious but realistic eco-efficient supply chain projects based on well informed decision making.

We participate with leading institutes to exchange information and to develop innovative solutions. Our clients benefit from our integrated expertise consolidated in local and international clusters of expertise.

Green logistics consultants are the logical choice to help your company to develop a sustainable logistics strategy and to realise tangible cost and eco-efficient logistics and supply chain measures.

Quantifying emissions enables transport providers to assess the emissions from their transport assets. It gives shippers as well as receivers of goods, such as retailers, the opportunity to calculate their supply chain emissions footprint. Quantifying emissions from mobile sources and supply chains provides the baseline from which emission mitigation strategies can be developed and performance can be measured over time. It will allow companies to set goals, to understand the tradeoffs between choices and to optimize their modes of freight transport.

The Green Logistics Consultants Group covers technical innovations and other drivers such as distance, speed, supply chain configuration, transport modes, transport and warehouse asset utilisation, packaging, reverse logistics, waste logistics and cultural change. The focus is on a correct and transparent measurement of Energy use, Greenhouse gas emissions and other harmful pollutants and on Transport avoidance, Operational and Technological strategies to reduce energy use and emissions (more info).

For more information, please contact the Green Logistics Partner in your area or the Green Logistics Consultants Group secretariat.

Learn how to measure and manage GHG emissions

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Climate TransAct

A project to develop public private sustainable transport partnerships in Europe

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DIRECTIVE 2008/101/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 19 November 2008

Including aviation activities in the scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading within the Community

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Beyond transport policy Exploring and managing the external drivers of transport demand

A report from
the EEA

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Towards CO2 efficient centralised distribution

by Christofer Kohn
Linköping University

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Highlights of International Transport Forum 2008

Transport and Energy: The Challenge of Climate Change

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EMEP/CORINAIR Emission Inventory Guidebook
2009
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White Paper - Adapting to climate change: Towards a European framework for action

EU Commission

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