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Logistics carbon trends and decarbonisation potential

Evaluating the relationships between connectivity, decarbonisation and resilience in freight transport
Report

International Transport Forum report (prepared for OECD/ITF Strategic Infrastructure Programme in Asia)

This report is one of four that the ITF commissioned as part of its Strategic Infrastructure Programme in Asia (SIPA). The previous three reports separately examined freight transport aspects of connectivity (by Ruth Banomyong), resilience (by Jasper Verschuur) and decarbonisation (by me).  While the regional context for the analyses is Asia, much of ... ...

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Logistics and Climate: an Assessment of Logistics' Multiple Roles in the Climate Crisis
Article

McKinnon, A.C, in International Journal of Logistics: Research and Applications (August 2024)

 Logistics will be absolutely critical to our management of the climate crisis.  The current preoccupation with the decarbonisation of logistics has distracted attention from the other important roles that logistics will play.  These range from being a cause and victim of climate change, to its involvement in adaptation, facilitating the decarbonisation of other sectors, carbon sequestration, humanitarian relief and, possibly, geo-engineering.This ...

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Enhancing freight transport decarbonisation through analytical frameworks: Applications to Central and Southeast Asia
Report

Paper prepared for the Sustainable Infrastructure Programme in Asia (SIPA) and published by the International Transport Forum.

This paper aims to help public policy makers, particularly in Asian countries, to monitor trends in carbon emissions from logistics and explore the related decarbonisation options. It does this by scoping the subject, outlining several analytical frameworks and identifying a range of metrics that quantify the scale of the carbon-reduction challenge and the main ways of addressing it. ...

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Deglobalisation: could it help to decarbonise global supply chains
Chapter

McKinnon, A.C, in Logistics in Transition: Exploring Geopolitical, Economic and Technological Trends. edited by Carlo Secchi and Alessandro Gili, ISPI / McKinsey & Co. (2024)

 This chapter in a report by ISPI - Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale and McKinsey & Company discusses the possible contribution of deglobalisation to the decarbonisation of global supply chains.  As over 80% of international trade is transported by sea, the impact would be mainly on maritime emissions.  ...

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The Decarbonization of Logistics in Lower Income Countries
Report

Report in Mobility and Transport Connectivity Series of the World Bank. (October 2023)

This report that I wrote for the World Bank examines how the decarbonization of logistics needs to be adapted to the ‘needs, opportunities, and constraints’ of less developed countries.  It does this within the ‘five lever’ framework of rationalising freight demand, switching freight to lower carbon transport modes, improving capacity utilisation, raising energy efficiency and transitioning to renewable energy.  ...

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Preparing Logistics for the Low Carbon Economy
Chapter

Chapter in Global Logistics and Supply Chain Strategies for the 2020s: vital skills for the next generation (eds. R. Merkert and K.Hoberg) Springer 2023

This book chapter discusses what businesses will need to do to reduce the level of carbon emissions from their logistics operations in line with current targets.  It also identifies skills that logistics managers will  need to acquire to be able to manage this decarbonisation process. Download ...

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Greening of Logistics: Cutting Pollution and Greenhouse Gas Emissions.
Chapter

McKinnon, A.C. in Global Logistics; New Directions in Supply Chain Management. 8th ed. edited by Sweeney, E. and Waters, D., Kogan Page, London (2021) pp.246-269

This is a new chapter written for the 8th edition of this long-established book on global logistics and supply chain management. It provides an up-to-date review of the current state of knowledge on the scale of logistics's contribution to air pollution and climate change and what needs to be done to minimise this environmental impact. Details ...

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Towards a Carbon-free Logistics
Chapter

McKinnon, A.C. in Global Quest for Sustainability: the role of green infrastructure in a post-pandemic world.
Carlo Secchi and Alessandro Gili Editors ISPI - McKinsey & CO, Milan (2021) pp.125-143

My chapter in this ISPI report on sustainable infrastructure discusses the application of the 'five-lever' approach to the decarbonisation of logistics. Download a copy of the report Download copy of my chapter ...

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Decarbonising Britain's Freight Transport System
Article

McKinnon, A.C. Transport and Logistics Focus, 21, 1. (2019)

In 2007, in a study for the UK Commission for Integrated Transport, I estimated CO2 emissions from freight transport in the UK using government data for 2006.  For my Decarbonising Logistics book I updated this calculation using statistics for 2016 to see how the carbon footprint of Britain's freight transport system had changed over the intervening decade.  ...

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3D Printing: Decarbonising Silver Bullet?
Article

McKinnon, A.C. Transport and Logistics Focus, 20, 10. (2018)

This short article in the magazine of the Charter Institute of Logistics and Transport asks to what extent 3D Printing might reduce the amount of freight movement and thus assist the decarbonisation of logistics. It reviews some recent publications on the subject and concludes that there is still great uncertainty about the net effect of this production technology on freight traffic levels.  ...

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Logistical Implications of the Fossil Fuel Phase-out
Article

Guest contribution to Transport Intelligence

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Freight Transport in a Low Carbon World
Paper

McKinnon, A.C., Transportation Research Board News 306 (November-December) (2016)

This article provides an overview of the formidable challenges that lie ahead in trying to constrain forecast increases in carbon emissions from freight transport. It also reviews the options for achieving the deep carbon reductions that will be necessary over the next 30 years.   Download ...

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Freight Transport Deceleration: its possible contribution to logistics decarbonisation
Paper

McKinnon, A.C. Transport Reviews , 34, 6, 418-436 (2016)

The paper challenges the conventional view that the movement of goods through supply chains must continue to accelerate. The compression of freight transit times has been one of the most enduring logistics trends but may not be compatible with government climate change policies to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 60-80% by 2050. ...

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Options for Reducing Logistics-Related Emissions from Global Value Chains
Paper

McKinnon, A.C., Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Research Paper No. RSCAS 2014/31 (2013)

The additional freight movement generated by the growth of world trade carries a significant environmental penalty. This paper examines the nature and scale of this penalty and assesses the opportunities for reducing it. It focuses on the various ways of cutting carbon emissions from international freight movement by sea and air. ...

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Mapping a Decarbonisation Path for Logistics
Chapter

McKinnon, A.C. In 'Delivering Tomorrow: Logistics 2050 - a Scenario Study’ Deutsche Post AG, Bonn.

A contribution to the DHL-sponsored scenario study which considered how logistics might evolve over the next 40 years. ...

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Reducing the Energy Consumption and Environmental Impact of Logistics
Chapter

McKinnon, A.C. In Inderwildi, O. and King, D. (eds), ‘Energy, Transport and the Environment’ Springer (2011)

This book chapter assesses the opportunities for improving the energy efficiency of logistics and thereby reducing its carbon intensity ...

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Developing a Decarbonisation Strategy for Logistics
Proceedings

McKinnon, A.C., Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Logistics Research Network (2010)

Increasing numbers of companies are developing formal programmes to reduce CO2 emissions from their logistics operations. They are coming under external pressure from customers, government and trade bodies to do this. How should a company plan and manage the decarbonisation of its logistics. ...

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Green Logistics: the Carbon Agenda
Paper

McKinnon, A.C., LogForum, 6, 3, 1-9 (2010)

This paper presents a framework for the decarbonisation of their logistical activities based on five key freight transport parameters: freight transport intensity, modal split, vehicle utilization, energy efficiency and the carbon intensity of the energy used in logistics. It examines the potential to cut GHG emissions by altering each of these parameters. ...

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Forecasting the Carbon Footprint of Road Freight Transport in 2020
Paper

Piecyk, M.I. and McKinnon, A.C., International Journal of Production Economics, 128, 1, 31-42 (2010)

This paper reports on research undertaken to determine the baseline trends in logistics and supply chain management and associated environmental effects up to 2020. Factors affecting freight transport demand, truck fuel consumption and related CO2 emissions are classified into six categories in relation to different levels of logistical decision-making. ...

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Logistics 2050: Moving Goods by Road in a Very Low Carbon World
Chapter

McKinnon, A.C. and Piecyk, M. In Sweeney, E. (ed), Supply Chain Management in a Volatile World’ Blackrock Publishing, Dublin (2009)

This book chapter constructs 12 scenarios of UK road freight CO­2 emissions in 2050 by modifying six critical parameters. It extrapolates the results of a Delphi survey of 100 logistics professionals’ views on future logistics trends.   Details of the book can be found here: ...

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The Potential of Economic Incentives to Reduce CO2 Emissions from Goods Transport
Report

McKinnon, A.C., International Transport Forum, Paris (2008)

This paper was commissioned for the first International Transport Forum in Leipzig in May 2008.   It examines the use of economic instruments to encourage companies to take a range of strategic, technical and operational measures to decarbonise their freight transport.    ...

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Advice on CO2 emissions from the UK Freight Transport Sector
Report

McKinnon, A.C. Committee on Climate Change, London (2008)

A published response to several questions posed by the UK Committee on Climate Change on CO2 emissions from freight transport. (The Committee was acting on a 'shadow' basis at the time prior to being fully established as 'an independent, statutory body'  under the UK Climate Change Act of 2008') Copy of ... ...

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CO2 Emissions from Freight Transport in the UK
Report

McKinnon, A.C., Commission for Integrated Transport, London (2007)

This study was the first attempt to carbon footprint freight transport operations in the UK on a cross-modal basis.  It was undertaken for the Commission on Integrated Transport as part of its major review of ‘Transport and Climate Change’.   The report begins with a discussion of methodological issues and then ... ...

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The Consolidation of Retail Deliveries: Its Effect on CO2 Emissions
Paper

McKinnon, A.C. and Woodburn, A., Transport Policy, 1, 2, 125-136 (1994)

This was one of the first papers in the logistics literature to look specifically at effects on CO2 emissions of a major structural trend in the sector. It argued that the centralisation of retail inventory and consolidation of shops deliveries by multiple retailers was yielding a net reduction in CO2 emissions per tonne of product delivered. ...

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