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Green Logistics: Balancing Environment and Business Needs

This report discusses the importance of green logistics in reducing ecological impacts and meeting regulatory requirements. It explores the challenges and benefits of implementing green practices in the logistics industry, emphasizing the need for companies to minimize their carbon footprints. The report also highlights the financial implications and governmental support available for businesses engaging in green logistics initiatives.

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Green Logistics: Balancing Environment and Business Needs

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  1. Report on Green Logistics Presentation at the Working Party on Intermodal Transport and Logistics Fifty-ninth session Geneva, 31 October-1 November 2016 Jean-Marc M. KiloloTransport Networks & Logistics Section Sustainable Transport Division

  2. Why Green logistics ? • Recent years have witnessed an increasing concern for the environment by the public and governments at a global level. • As a result, national and international regulations have been passed to mitigate the ecological impacts of economic activities, including Logistics. • Thus, companies have come under growing pressure to minimize their carbon footprints.

  3. 2. What is Green logistics ? • It encompasses all measures taken to assess and reduce the environmental footprint of logistic activities. • These measures fall into various categories.

  4. 3. Green logistics in practice

  5. 4. Green logistics, useful?

  6. 5. Conclusion • The green initiatives mentioned above, through the use of environment calculators, allow companies to quantify the ecological impact of their interventions on environment sustainability. • Given the amount of environmental initiatives deployed by firms, green logistics seems to be more than just a fashion. • However, customers may not be willing to spend more for more sustainable logistics services. This constitutes a barrier to long-term environmental initiatives. • Green logistics also imposes a financial burden on firms, particularly for small enterprises. Governmental support in the form of subsidies or tax breaks has proven to be helpful in this regard. • Carrying out green logistics initiatives becomes harder with heterogeneous environmental regulations between and within countries.

  7. Thank you for your attentionJean-Marc M. KiloloTransport Networks & Logisticsjean-marc.kilolo@unece.org

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