Zero-Carbon Logistics

Peter Wells ()
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Peter Wells: Cardiff University

Chapter Chapter 6 in Contemporary Operations and Logistics, 2019, pp 81-95 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This is a chapter concerned with the impossibility of zero-carbon logistics. The logistics industry faces a dilemma: not only to achieve continued cost reductions in the service provided, but also to manage the (rapid) transition to (near) zero-carbon logistics. The chapter reviews the issue of why logistics operations (transport and storage) need to achieve zero-carbon status, and do so quickly, by reference to both the underlying science of climate change and the predominant (but not universal) adoption of carbon reduction policy targets. In shipping and air freight the chapter argues that there are no readily available, low-cost, technological solutions to reduce carbon emissions and to offset the anticipated increase in trade. Put another way, in global logistics systems as currently constituted, the prospects of end-to-end zero-carbon transport are slim.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-14493-7_6

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