Topics in Operations Transport – Are empty lorries a CO2 threat?

June 2010

Guidelines for implementation of CO2-reducing initiatives

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Guidelines for implementation of CO2-reducing initiatives

• Identify important operational areas internally as well as externally in which CO2 emission could be reduced

• Measure CO2 emission

• Identify drivers for CO2 emission

Baseline for CO2 emission

• Identify initiatives reducing CO2 from own and external parties in the value chain

• Identify risks and opportunities of outlined initiatives

• Prioritisation of outlined initiatives and connections between them

• Involve the ”right” persons/knowledge

Initiatives – opportunities and risks

• Perform analyses, calculations, effect assessment etc.

• Prepare business case

• Assess outlined initiatives in relation to effects, competitive advantages, investment etc.

• Select initiative for implementation

Direction of the CO2 journey

• Determine the target for CO2 emission

• Decide how and how frequently target figures and progress are to be reported and to whom in the organisation

• Decide how to communicate

• Determine actions when target figures are exceeded

Targets, reporting and communication

• Define roles and responsibilities

• Define and determine milestones

• Create anchoring through the right involvement

• Initiate communication internally as well as externally to e.g. customers, suppliers and cooperators

Start implementation

• Overview of the current CO2 level

• Experience in calculating CO2

• Prioritisation of CO2-reducing initiatives

• Overview of opportunities and risks

• Specification of relevant CO2-reducing initiatives

• Business case or reduction potential

• Targets and reporting structure

• Communication plan

• Action plan when effects are not achieved

• Implementation and communication plan

• The beginning of more environmentally friendly transport

Note: CO2 calculation models are available on the Internet, see e.g. http://www.key2green.dk/, which is a voluntary cooperation between the Danish environmental networks, or http://www.itd.dk/, which is an association of the professional road transport companies in Denmark.

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