From Carbon Footprint to Climate Action: Practical Decarbonisation Levers for Humanitarian Logistics

Summary

A practical guide that helps humanitarian logisticians turn carbon footprint data into actionable measures that cut emissions, improve operational efficiency, and reduce costs across the supply chain.

Content

This guide (published in 2022) helps humanitarian organisations move beyond measuring emissions and start reducing them. It provides a practical roadmap for developing a decarbonisation strategy and outlines high-impact actions across logistics operations, including transport, fleet management, procurement, warehousing, travel, facilities, IT, and waste management. For humanitarian logisticians, the resource is particularly valuable because it translates carbon data into concrete operational decisions, showing how better planning, shipment consolidation, sustainable procurement, fleet optimisation, energy efficiency, and modal shifts from air to sea or road can reduce both emissions and costs while maintaining programme effectiveness.

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