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Our approach
To
investigate how your company can improve the socio-environmental performance
of its logistics
activities or supply chain
and to realise a sustainable logistics, one must start with an analysis of the energy
consumption and associated greenhouse gas emissions
and other air contaminants
from
the
logistics emission sources or
of
existing supply chains.
This will provide a baseline from which a emission reduction strategy can be
developed and performance can be measured over time.
Starting
with material flow analyses, logistics data
and technical data, the
logistics profile of a supply chain are converted into energy consumption
and greenhouse gas emissions data.
This process results in
Emission Inventories
for logistics emissions sources and in
Supply Chain Ecological Key Performance
Indicators (Eco-KPI) per supply chain, parts of the supply chain,
product group or product in terms of value, weight and/or volume.
If
detailed logistics data or energy consumption data is not (yet) available,
average profiles and default energy and emission factors are used to
estimate the energy consumption and related key environmental impacts.
A project of
the Green Logistics Consultants Group is
to foster cooperation and co-ordination between
public
authorities, research institutes and other
organisations
with the objective to (i) agree a worldwide accepted framework for the
calculation of emissions of goods transport and supply chains and (ii) to
create harmonised
databases
with international and national information on emissions factors and
logistics data.
These
data warehouses provide
information on the capacity, capacity utilisation, energy consumption,
greenhouse gas
and other air
contaminants
of the different transport modes and of different transport vehicle classes
or
(representative)
types.
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Protocols and methodologies are consistent with ISO 14040, ISO 14044, ISO 14064
standards and the GHG protocols developed by the
World Business Council for Sustainable Development and the World Resources
Institute.
For
more
information please contact our
secretariat.
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