Mastering Green Logistics
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Introduction
Objective
Who should attend
Logistics consists of the planning, organisation, management, execution and control of freight transport operations. As such, it is a key contributor to climate change.
The application of Green Logistics principles aims to achieve optimum performance expressed in cost, time or energy savings, thus reducing the negative environmental impacts of logistics (such as greenhouse gas emissions, air pollution, noise, vibration and accidents) throughout a range of interventions along the chain.
By attending the Mastering Green Logistics training course, you will be introduced to the green logistics. You will examine the environmental, financial, and social impacts of logistics and procurement operations at a local and global scale, and learn why these need to be minimised.
You will have the opportunity to explore the key policies and laws regulating supply chain functions that aim to protect the environment. You will also be introduced to the methods that assess the environmental performance of supply chains, in order to improve current practices and monitor progress.
Course Outline
( Assessing the Environmental Effects of Logistics)
Environmental Sustainability: A New Priority for Logistics Managers
- A brief history of green logistics research.
- Green logistics: rhetoric and reality.
- Future scenarios.
- A model for green logistics research.
Assessing the External Impacts of Freight Transport
- External impacts.
- Environmental standards.
- Measuring the environmental impact of freight transport.
Carbon Auditing of Companies, Supply Chains and Products
- Guidelines for carbon foot printing.
- The carbon foot printing process.
- Success factors in carbon foot printing.
Case Study
- Arguments for and against the internalization of environmental costs.
- Monetary valuation of environmental costs.
- Internalization of the external costs imposed by road freight vehicles in the UK.
