Creating more fuel efficient and sustainable logistics networks

Freight movement accounts for 7% of all corporate greenhouse gas emissions, making it one of the largest carbon footprint contributors.

Companies have the power and financial incentive to reduce their environmental impact from freight. By employing smarter logistics strategies, they can operate more efficiently and affordably.

EDF has packaged those strategies into a series of free, user-friendly resources to help your company design and launch its own Green Freight projects.

The case for Green Freight

Freight movement accounts for 16% of all corporate greenhouse gas emissions, making it one of the largest carbon footprint contributors. The emissions come directly from trucks, trains, ships and planes that carry goods. Companies have the power and financial incentive to reduce their environmental impact from freight. By employing smarter logistics strategies, they can operate more efficiently and affordably.

Resources for Your Green Freight Journey

EDF has developed a suite of resources, case studies and best practices—including the comprehensive Green Freight Handbook—to help guide you on every stage of your Green Freight Journey.

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EDF Climate Corps & Green Freight

One way to start your company’s Green Freight journey is to hire an EDF Climate Corps fellow. On average, each Climate Corps fellow identifies $1 million in savings for their host organization.

In 2014, Eric Chappell worked with Ocean Spray to cut transportation costs and emissions by switching more routes to intermodal and increasing order optimization.

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Recent research has determined that 15–25% of U.S. trucks on the road are empty and, for non-empty miles, trailers are 36 percent underutilized. Capturing just half of this under-utilized capacity would cut freight truck emissions by 100 million tons per year – about 20% of all U.S. freight emissions – and reduce expenditures on diesel fuel by more than $30 billion a year.

Jason Mathers is our Green Freight Superhero. He is a director with EDF working with our global supply chain team to reduce emissions from freight movement. As part of this work, Jason has cataloged current best practices and developed a framework for managing emissions from supply chain logistics. To advance our green freight work, Jason is working with leading companies, third-party logistics providers, academia and professional associations.

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Creating more fuel efficient and sustainable logistics networks

The case for Green Freight