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An industry whose whole reason to be is the movement of goods is always going to use a lot of energy – and managing the emissions is always going to be challenging.
So perhaps it is not surprising that Professor Alan McKinnon is now warning that we risk falling way short of the targets set by the Paris Climate Change Agreement unless businesses intensify their efforts to address the problem.
His new book, Decarbonizing Logistics, McKinnon points out that the worldwide movement of freight is forecast to grow three-fold by 2050. “On a business-as-usual basis freight transport alone could account around a third of allowable emissions in 2050, if we are to keep the increase average global temperature by 2100 within 1.5- 2o C as agreed by the 2015 Paris Climate Change conference.”
A UK case study suggests that the carbon footprint of freight transport contracted by around 18 per cent between 2006 and 2016, but this rate of CO2 reduction is not enough to meet the government’s longer-term carbon reduction targets. Read more
Source: LOGISTICS MANAGER
