Sustainability measurement at logistics transportation company

• Autor(a) principal: Pereira, Fábio Cordeiro
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/26697
• topic: Carbon footprint; Logistic transportation; Sustentabilidade -- Sustainability; Standards; Pegada de carbono; Transporte logístico; Normas

The concern for reducing CO2 emissions has been growing exponentially. Companies have been developing mechanisms and metrics that allow the generalized reduction of their carbon footprint, through the renewal of energy sources, and development of more energy efficient activities. Our study has two main objectives. The first is to develop a model to calculate the carbon footprint of a transport company operating in the Iberian Peninsula, based on the calculation methodologies provided by the Lean&Green program, which are governed by the ISO14064 and EN16258 protocols. The second objective is to identify characteristics, patterns and factors that influence carbon emissions and therefore contribute to the calculation of the carbon footprint. Thus, for this research work we identified indicators associated with the activity developed by the logistics company. We implemented an approach to measure CO2 emissions to verify the assumed reduction goal of at least 20% over a period of 5 years compared to the CO2 emissions emitted in 2017. In the work processes, the CRIPS-DM methodology was followed, with data collected through an API made available by the company for the first half of 2022. As a result of the visualization techniques adopted and consequent analyses developed, we identified the main factors that contribute to the calculation of the carbon footprint. We developed a carbon footprint calculation model and a set of management metrics in order to monitor CO2 emissions.