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DB Schenker Greater China holds a Sustainable Logistics Forum
"Greening" of the logistics industry has a significant impact on achieving carbon peak and carbon neutrality. The transport sector, which accounted for 7.2Gt of carbon dioxide emissions (roughly 21 percent of the global total) in 2020*. Thus, all logistics companies, shippers, carriers, and all other industry stakeholders play a huge role toward low-carbon development.
"Greening" of the logistics industry has a significant impact on achieving carbon peak and carbon neutrality. The transport sector, which accounted for 7.2Gt of carbon dioxide emissions (roughly 21 percent of the global total) in 2020*. Thus, all logistics companies, shippers, carriers, and all other industry stakeholders play a huge role toward low-carbon development.
DB Schenker in Greater China recently held a Sustainable Logistics Forum in Nanjing, exploring ways to pioneer and push forward the development of sustainability in the logistics industry. At the forum, Spencer Liu, Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company’s Hong Kong office delivered a keynote speech on the topic of “Accelerating the decarbonization of transportation”, presenting the case for a demand-driven approach to accelerating zero-emission transitions. Lillian Gu, Transportation Director of L’Oréal North Asia shared L’Oréal’s success stories to help attendees better understand how they can act in concert with customers as a link in the supply chain to drive sustainable development.
Spencer Liu, Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company’s Hong Kong office, said: “A demand-driven solution to transportation decarbonization can leverage two mutually reinforcing enablers - a standardized book-and-claim framework, and green supply-chain coalitions. A standardized book-and-claim framework decouples physical green offerings from virtual carbon credits. Green supply-chain demand coalitions aggregate and scale commitment to buy green. These enablers create a cycle of positive reinforcement in greening the supply chain.”
Lillian Gu, Transportation Director of L’Oréal North Asia, said: “L’Oréal has posted successes achieved through the first decade sustainable development programme ‘Sharing Beauty With All’, and now we have been moving in the second decade journey ‘L’Oréal for the future’. In this new programme, L'Oréal committed to reducing carbon emissions across the supply chain. To achieve this, we have set numerical targets for every aspect of our activities, including our factories and the entire supply chain. Therefore, we will consider our suppliers' willingness to reduce carbon and their current initiatives. In addition, one of our targets is to reduce by 50% per sold units CO2 emission in transport by 2030, compared to 2016. We have several success cases to show what we have achieved, such as building a low-carbon transport model with different transport combinations for mix per distance or using rail for transportation like the previous partnership with DB Schenker.”
DB Schenker has been responsive to industry requirements and supportive of emission reduction efforts. The company is building green supply chains in a variety of fields, including land, ocean, air transportation, contract logistics service and striving to become a leader in carbon reduction practices in the industry.
- DB Schenker has been responsive to industry requirements and supportive of emission reduction efforts. The company is building green supply chains in a variety of fields, including land, ocean, air transportation, contract logistics service and striving to become a leader in carbon reduction practices in the industry.
- DB Schenker Greater China and Foton Motor Group reached a consensus on cooperation, by purchasing 42 Foton iBlue New Energy Light Trucks and operate them in 15 provinces and cities across China to minimize the carbon footprint of the transportation process.
- DB Schenker and CMA CGM offered regular emission-free ocean freight. It will be able to reach net carbon zero-emission on a well-to-wake basis on the LCL segment.
By taking concrete actions such as exploring more green logistics and freight solutions, DB Schenker fulfils its commitment and contributes to China and the company's customers' carbon neutrality goals and sustainable developments.
Vishal Sharma, CEO of DB Schenker Greater China, said, “We have always been committed to sustainable development in the industry. This forum only marks the start. We aim to explore feasible initiatives to promote the carbon reduction process in the logistics supply chain through communication and information sharing with the upstream and downstream of the supply chain members. In the future, we will continue to fulfill our responsibilities and commitments with concrete actions. Recently, two heavy-duty electric tractors and one hydrogen truck will join our new energy fleet in DB Schenker Greater China to energy-saving and carbon reduction.”
*Source: Tracking Transport 2021, International Energy Agency (IEA)