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Logistics Sustainability Initiatives Agree to a Joint Vision for Greenhouse-gas Data Management and Reporting
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The World Economic Forum has brought together leading sustainability initiatives to align their work on supply chain carbon reporting.
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Following CEO agreement at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos last year to Consignment-
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The involved organizations issued a joint statement on their commitment to collaboration.
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The World Economic Forum has brought together leading sustainability initiatives to align their work on supply chain carbon reporting. Following CEO agreement at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos last year to Consignment-
Professor Alan McKinnon, Director of the Logistics Research Centre, Heriot-Watt University and Chair, Logistics & Supply Chain Agenda Council of the World Economic Forum, commented “The logistics and transport sector has been an early mover on carbon reporting. However, there is now a pressing need for greater co-ordination."
Organizations managing leading logistics sustainability initiatives have agreed to a joint vision of simple yet accurate greenhouse-gas data management and reporting. Companies should be able to easily exchange broadly-accepted carbon footprint data along the supply chain. Action towards this is underway.
The organizations working to align their activities under this vision include Carbon Disclosure Project, Clean Cargo Working Group, Climate TransAct, EcoTransit and NTM. The collaborative effort is in response to the fast development of standards, data and calculators for sharing greenhouse-gas information along the supply chain. Many of the tools are complementary; however, logistics companies and their customers still struggle to efficiently collect, process and report carbon footprint data in widely accepted form.
The groups believe that greater transparency and harmonization of efforts is possible and will improve the quality and uptake of greenhouse-gas emissions reporting in the logistics sector.
By publicly communicating on the collaborative effort, participating organizations hope to affirm the leadership of the private sector, together with multistakeholder experts, in steering towards globally compatible greenhouse-gas emissions reporting approaches for logistics.
The group invites other key stakeholders, including leading shippers and carriers, NGOs, policy-makers, academia, and other reporting and partnership programmes to join their efforts to mainstream carbon reporting procedures for the industry.
Leading companies meet in Brussels to define objectives of a voluntary sustainable freight transport programme in Europe
A group of thirty leading companies participated in the first pre-founding stakeholder meeting for the industry on the 3rd of December to share ideas and agree on objectives of a voluntary sustainable freight transport programme in Europe. Participants included representatives from CEVA Logistics, Emons Cargo, Geopost, Henkel, H&M, IKEA, La Poste, LKW Walter, Norbert Dentressangle, Procter & Gamble, Rockwool, DB Schenker, Schneider Electric, SC Johnson, TNT, Unilever and UPS.
The meeting was part of a new phase following the evaluation and testing phase of the US Environmental SmartWay concept and monitoring and reporting tools for road freight transport by the SmartWay Europe Working Group (Deutsche Post DHL, UPS, TNT, GEODIS, Kraft Foods, Heineken and Ikea together with a selected group of their road transport carriers).
The objectives of the meeting were to define the goal and objectives of the new programme and to create a working group of companies and industry stakeholder process to define the most appropriate governance and management structure, programme and funding of a sustainable freight transport programme in Europe and organisation.
The goal and objectives of the programme were defined and will be based on the following principles:
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the promotion and support of sustainable procurement of freight transport services to improve the environmental performance of all freight transport modes and intermodal freight transport;
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to start with the development of a common monitoring and reporting system for road freight transport with a central register to assess and benchmark the environmental performance of road carriers and their fleets based on validated data reporting;
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to partner with similar programmes in other parts of the world and in particular with the SmartWay programme from the US Environmental Protection Agency;
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the creation of a not-
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participation of carriers and shippers as partners in a common programme;
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shippers will encourage carriers to participate in the programme;
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the provision of best and most accurate information available regarding new technology and best practices that improve fuel efficiency, lower greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution;
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recognition for participating carriers and shippers and in particular for those demonstrating advanced practices and achieving superior levels of environmental performance;
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development of a certification logo for partners based on a environmental performance score that will determine eligibility to use this logo;
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to investigate the opportunities to develop a similar monitoring and reporting system for other freight transport modes and intermodal freight transport or to collaborate with other organisations having or working on a similar approach in the other freight transport modes than road freight transport;
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to work in partnership with other stakeholders, national and European authorities.
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Companies interested to join the working group and/or stakeholder process in the coming 4 months can contact:
Erik van Agtmaal
European Coordinator
erik.van.agtmaal(at)altimedes.com
Tel. +32(0)24601730
European Coordinator
erik.van.agtmaal(at)altimedes.com
Tel. +32(0)24601730