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Advance of 'sustainable logistics' continues.
On 13 April, a workshop was given in Utrecht on the ‘Green Tender', a new sustainable business concept for logistics launched in February 2010 by multinationals InterfaceFLOR, Mars Nederland, and Heinz in collaboration with the Sustainable Logistics program of Connekt. Green Tender encourages companies during tendering selection procedures for logistic services providers to embed not only ‘price', ‘service' and ‘quality' but also sustainability criteria such as ‘social wellbeing' and ‘the environment' into their decision-making processes. At the workshop, the presentation by ProRail showed how the company uses the CO2 performance ladder to include sustainability criteria in its purchasing program. The Sustainable Logistics program supports 250 leading goods logistics companies that apply sustainability criteria. This is (in Dutch) what the newspapers wrote about the workshop and more information about the goals of and the partners in the Sustainable Logistics program may be found at www.duurzamelogistiek.nl.
Green Company Certificate
The steadfast advance of the sustainable logistics theme is evidenced also by the introduction of a global standard for measuring CO2-emissions of logistic services providers. At the same time, a certificate is introduced for ‘green' companies. All designed to ensure that sustainability becomes a standard element in operations. The initiators, such as CQM, use a four-step scgreen (‘supply chain green') program to describe the existing situation at logistic services providers in terms of CO2-emissions and the options to reduce these emissions.
The four steps are: scan, measure, implement and certify. They provide a handle for a structured action plan to reduce CO2-emissions resulting in a scgreen certificate for those companies that complete the full program and achieve (a basis for) reduction of their CO2-emissions. Pilot projects are in place to complete development of a standardized CO2-calculator. The instrument will have a range of simulation options to quantify the reduction of emissions and related costs. The calculator was scheduled to be introduced on the international logistics market on 1 May. For more information please see www.scgreenprogram.com.
May 2010