Decarbonizing Logistics

Alan McKinnon is Professor of Logistics at Kühne Logistics University, Hamburg. He has been researching and teaching freight transport and logistics for almost forty years and has published extensively in journals and books. He was a member of the European Commission's High Level Group on Logistics, Chairman of the World Economic Forum's Logistics and Supply Chain Industry Council and a lead author of the transport chapter of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's fifth assessment report. He has spent many years researching the links between logistics and climate change and been an adviser to governments, international organizations and companies on this topic.

• Chapter - 01: Climate change: the nature and scale of the challenge;Chapter - 02: Developing a decarbonisation strategy for logistics;Chapter - 03: Reducing freight transport intensity;Chapter - 04: Shifting freight to lower carbon transport modes;Chapter - 05: Improving asset utilisation in logistics;Chapter - 06: Transforming energy use in road freight transport;Chapter - 07: Transforming energy use in maritime, air cargo and rail freight sectors;Chapter - 08: Decarbonising logistics at the national level: the case of the united kingdom;

"Professor McKinnon is making again a ground-breaking contribution. The greenhouse gas footprint of logistics is large. Reducing it relies on several mechanisms, because logistics involves many activities and participants. This book disentangles this complexity and proposes a clear framework for reduction. It identifies interventions by shippers, service providers or the public sector. The book lays the foundations of initiatives to come. It should appeal to a wide range of policymakers, academics and practitioners."