New Study, the German Post AG: "Delivering Tomorrow - Future Trend Sustainable logistics" / "Delivering Tomorrow: Towards Sustainable Logistics The German Post AG published interesting study on "Sustainable / Green Logistics"
The German version of the study, see this link
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The English version of the study, see this link
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key findings from the study (Source: see website link above):
- The number of CO2-neutral GoGreen shipments of German postal DHL has increased fivefold from 2008 to 2009, almost - from 145 million to 704 million .
- From January 2012 the air traffic the first in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU Emissions Trading System) included transport industry will be. At the same time by the "Single European Sky II package of the European Union to reduce the CO 2 emissions by up to 12% expected.
- From 1.62 billion tons of truck emissions in Europe is about one quarter back on empty trips - often due to legal requirements.
- 84% of consumers in China, India, Malaysia and Singapore would be willing to pay a higher price for "green" products - compared with just 50% of consumers in Western industrialized countries.
- The lighting makes up from 80% to energy needs of warehouses.
- 38% of risk managers consider the availability and price of fuels and energy as a key future risks of companies.
- trucks represent only 20% of the total fleet of German Post from DHL, but for 80% of emissions from road transport of the Group responsible.
- The companies with the best sustainability performance terms of environmental, social and governance criteria reported an up to 8% better stock performance than less sustainable businesses.
- 63% my business customers, that is, logistics is a key strategic lever for reduce CO 2 emissions
- The consumed consumer goods year 253 000 000 tons of packaging material -. Half Paper and half plastic. For paper production have 7 million trees to be felled.
- At highway speed, aerodynamic drag for 40% of the fuel consumption of heavy trucks is responsible.
Here's the contents:
Notable facts
foreword by Frank Appel
Introduction and Executive Summary
first About Sustainability: Why
sustainable action is rational - but still a challenge for the human mind
Clemens Beckmann
sustainability - reflections of political philosophy by Otfried Hoffe
second The importance of the logistics industry to sustainable development - and vice versa by Katharina Tomoff
3 on the road to sustainable logistics industry
1.3 Consumers are aware of their market power increasingly aware of CO2 Monitoring, controlling and management in the logistics industry by Michael Lohmeier
3.2 increasing economic value of sustainability
3.3 Civic activities promoting a "greener" logistics
Market-based emission reduction - the superior approach, by A. Denny Ellerman
The "sandwich" solution to global climate policy Detlef Sprinz
3.4 Conclusion: The opportunity is there - but they must all pull together
Sustainable Logistics in Asia by Robert de Souza, Rong Zhou and Laura Bolton
4 An overview of conceptual and operational solutions for a sustainable logistics
01.04 Conceptual solutions
procurement strategies, production strategies, distribution strategies
challenges in the implementation of CO2 policies - a report by Sander van den Berg
City Logistics - Distribution in growing metropolitan areas of Petra Kiwitt
sustainability as a driver of cooperative approaches in the logistics business of Frank Straube, Stefan Yet
4.2 Operational Solutions
road freight, sea, air and rail freight traffic, dematerialization and remote transmission, energy efficiency in storage, employee commitment, workplace
3.4 Conclusion
5 As the logistics industry is changing on the way to sustainability: seven key trends
epilogue by Rainer Wend
Thanksgiving
Green Trends Survey: a closer look
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