A consortium comprising more than 25 global companies and organisations is developing new guidance to quantify the impact of greenhouse gas (GHG) logistics emissions in an effort to increase the transparency of carbon emissions and work towards a net-zero logistics sector.
To be more specific, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and the Smart Freight Centre, a non-profit organisation dedicated to carbon-free logistics, have launched an initiative to advance the quantification of logistics emissions by developing ‘actionable and implementable’ guidance in collaboration with a number of global companies, including shipping giants CMA CGM and Maersk.
The guidance, as provided, builds on and complements two existing frameworks. The first is the Global Logistics Emissions Council (GLEC) Framework 2.0, a framework for calculating and reporting logistics emissions developed by the Smart Freight Centre. The WBCSD’s Pathfinder Framework, which provides recommendations for accounting and exchanging product life cycle emissions, is the second.
“The objective is to enable companies to better understand and track their carbon emissions on a granular operational level, enhance industry collaboration and support businesses in the implementation of their decarbonisation strategies and achievement of net-zero targets”, the consortium explains.
The guidance encompasses the entire supply chain – from supplier to customer, providing end-to-end quantification of GHG emissions and supporting each organisation’s decarbonisation strategy.
The guidance will be published by the end of 2022, with an intended formal launch during the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, in January 2023. The organisations that took part in this initiative are A.P. Moller – Maersk, ADEME, Aldi Süd, Amazon, APL Logistics, ArcelorMittal, CMA CGM, Colgate-Palmolive, Convoy, DOW Chemical, DPDgroup, Deutsche Post DHL Group, EcoTransIT World, European Shippers Council, Kuehne+Nagel, Nestlé, PSA International, Posti, project44, Scania, Selfridges, Siemens, TK Blue Agency, Uber, Unilever, UPS, Volkswagen.
